Ulrich Müller <[email protected]> writes: > Debian had the same issue: https://bugs.debian.org/952951 > Their conclusion was that the headers are non-free and they ended up > removing them. > > I tend to agree: PKCS11 is hosted at github.com/oasis-tcs, and > https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/github-repositories-for-oasis-tc-members-chartered-work/ > says in the "Repositories for TC Members’ Chartered Work" section:
Yes, and p11-kit seems even worse, so it's no solution :-( > | 6) Outbound? Outbound licensing is governed by OASIS policies for TCs, > | including terms in the TC’s selected IPR Mode > > This points to https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr/ which > is rather convoluted. In sections 10.1 and 10.2.1 one find this: > > | [...] For the sake of clarity, the rights set forth above include the > | right to directly or indirectly authorize a third party to make > | unmodified copies of the Licensee’s Licensed Products and to license > | (optionally under the third party’s license) the Licensee’s Licensed > | Products within the scope of, and subject to the terms of, the > | Obligated Party’s license. > > IANAL and I'm certainly not qualified to disentangle this mess (and the > part of the paragraph that I've omitted is even worse). However, it says > "unmodified copies" which clearly makes it non-free. Yes, that seemed so to me, too. But it was never clear to me how interface definitions actually behave in cases like these. > There's also https://github.com/oasis-tcs/pkcs11/issues/9 but without > any visible progress. Seems that some progress has been made there: > The co-chairs will approach OASIS Open to see if we could officially > also republish also under the 2 clause BSD license as well as the > standard OASIS Open copyright. ... so perhaps it's a waiting game at this point. -- Arsen Arsenović
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