Ludovic Rousseau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After a bit of research we (Andreas, me and some others) found that all > the applications using the PKCS#11 API also use tha RSA header files. > These header files are the API reference so it is normal to use them.
I thought the API reference was the PDF from http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/pkcs/pkcs-11/ which has a slightly different licence and wouldn't be copied wholesale anyway, just the few names for interfacing. It is interesting. Could one read the API reference documentation and recreate the header files from the ideas? If so, I'm surprised it hasn't been done already, but I can only find the RSA files and a copy in gpkcs11.sf.net which seems to be the RSA files with the copyright header stripped. [...] > - Does the RSA publicity clause conflict with the GPL used by Mozilla? Yes. For a similar answer from [EMAIL PROTECTED], see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-mailutils/2002-09/msg00016.html It's a shame that RSA are using the ad clause. Not even UCB still does. I think it has caused problems within the GnuPG community before. > - Is Mozilla using an illegal licence? No. It may be contradictory in that no-one can satisfy it, so no-one can redistribute the NSS under the GPL, but it is not illegal. > - Should Debian stop distributing Mozilla? I don't know. > I guess Mozilla lawyers already thought about the problem. Anybody knows if > they consider the RSA publicity clause in conflict with GPL? Not me. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
