On 27/11/06, Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Alessandro Premoli wrote:
> The new PKCS#11 header *is* a derivative work of the original RSA
> interface.
you can't put a license on a printed book - the law is quite clear
on that. so if someone reads the book "pkcs#11 (the complete standard,
not the header files)", and notes down the definitions and lines
he needs, the result is free from any license. we did that. but I'm
not a lawyer.
Appendix D of the PKCS#11 standard is titled "Intellectual property
considerations" and contains the paragraph:
"License to COPY this document is granted provided that it is
identified as "RSA Security Inc. Public-Key Cryptography Standards
(PKCS)" in all material mentioning or
referencing this document. "
I don't know who far we must interpret the term "copy". Is the new .h
file a copy of (part of) the PDF document?
Note that the PKCS#11 API is not distributed from RSA as a printed
book but as a PDF electronic file.
Maybe we should talk to a (real) lawyer?
Bye,
--
Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
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