Re: patch providing SHA-2 utilities

2005-11-10 Thread David Madore
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My understanding (although IANAL) is that when you assign copyright to FSF, you, as original author, still retain the right to relicense your code as you see fit for other uses without involving the FSF. So the fact that you are willing to relicense

Re: patch providing SHA-2 utilities

2005-11-09 Thread David Madore
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 04:17:08PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: Hi. Would it be possible to re-license this work to the LGPL, and merge it with gnulib? I will eventually need SHA-2 in some of my projects that is using gnulib, and I want the LGPL license. I contacted FSF earlier to

Re: Bug#325205: please provide sha256sum, sha384sum and sha512sum

2005-08-27 Thread David Madore
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 04:30:51PM +, Eric Blake wrote: Would it make more sense to have a single sha utility that takes an argument of which algorithm to use, defaulting to the most secure, then the user can define wrappers to invoke a non-default algorithm? For example, 'sha