Arsen Arsenović <[email protected]> writes:

> 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.

A tragic development!

https://github.com/oasis-tcs/pkcs11/issues/9#issuecomment-3881379096

So, I'm not sure what the right thing to do at all is anymore.  Rewrite
it not to use these headers but still provides a compatible ABI?  Mark
it proprietary?  Use p11-kit and assume there was some behind-the-scenes
dealing to make it distributable under the terms specified in it?  Those
terms being:

  /* pkcs11.h
     Copyright 2006, 2007 g10 Code GmbH
     Copyright 2006 Andreas Jellinghaus
     Copyright 2017, 2021-2025 Red Hat, Inc.
  
     This file is free software; as a special exception the author gives
     unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without
     modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
  
     This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
     WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law; without even
     the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
     PURPOSE.  */

I mean, as the file states, it is derived from the OASIS one, but
there's a "special exception" granted by RH.  It's not unheard-of that
such special exceptions are granted to companies in order to release
stuff as free software, so I reckon that's a possibility.
-- 
Arsen Arsenović

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