----Mensaje original---- De: mar...@paljak.pri.ee Fecha: 24/06/2010 10:27 Para: "Juan Antonio Martinez"<jons...@terra.es> CC: "Alejandro Vargas"<alejandro....@gmail.com>, "opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org devel"<opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org>, "Malcolm Bain"<malcolm.b...@id-lawpartners.com> Asunto: Re: [opensc-devel] Changes on Spanish DNIe licensing [....] > > As Direccion General de la Policia has released the code as > > GPL, we never can integrate it (static compile) into OpenSC. > > (LGPL can be promoted to GPL. The reverse isn't true). So > > DNI'e must be built as dynloaded module regardless keys handling > > > > It's a license nightmare: my feeling is that DGP has chosen > > GPL to ensure that all derived code will be easily auditable > What about asking them if this is their intent? We've sent several emails asking for: - Permission for publishing private keys - Policy for code approval - Legal issues on several ways to extract&insert keys into compiled binaries - Change license from GPL to LGPL or allow dual licensing - Centralized source code repository (at OpenSC , DGP, or wherever ) - How to handle linux distribution packages No response (yet) > There is one thing how they want to release the code As no response from DGP, we only can elucubrate: on several forums people talks about a sort of DGP's Source Code Approval Office: developers send their code to DGP, and if is approved, key bits are added and source code signed But, it's just an elucubration... > there's another aspect how it looks from prior infringement aspect (which is > pretty obvious now). Yes: - First one: two years of binary code infringing LGPL - Then two weeks of source code without any license - Legal status of private keys. As not published under GPL, local law applies: we cannot publish them, nor publishing scripts to extract. We only can describe the way to obtain... Stupid an incongruent laws... Im unsure about what OpenSC should do. My feeling is not to include any dnie bits neither in OpenSC tree nor a separate GPL module subtree until legal issues get clear But in the meanwhile, several repositories have started to work with published code. I really dislike this situation. Juan Antonio
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