On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) <drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote: > On 18 Oct 2017 00:39, "William Stein" <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 4:35 PM Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) >> <drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote: > >>> There are a lot of number theorists using Sagemath. Could one or more >>> consider implementing the functionality of OpenSSL in a re-write? Maybe a >>> Google Summer of Code project? >> >> >> Absolutely not. That's not how security software works (and would be >> insulting to the OpenSSL developers). You are **epically** understimating >> what OpenSSL is and does. > > I don't see how it is insulting to someone to say we like what you have > done, but need a different licence model, so will need to implement the > algoithms ourselves. > > How is that materially different to Octave implementing MATLAB functionality > but under an open source licence? > > I feel an unacceptable licence and/or a broken implementation on one > platform (OSX) are both reasons for a rewrite. It seems that there are both > problems now. > > What in my opinion is insulting is to > > 1) Add the OpenSSL code to Sagemath, knowing full well it is against the > licence. How anybody can justify such action is beyond me.
Note: We're not talking about adding *any* OpenSSL code to SageMath. Sage would never be distributed with code from OpenSSL. We're only talking about providing a means to download and install it from source, and about shipping binaries that includes it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
