Re: Legal issues, DES

2001-06-04 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
these days, if you are in the u.s.: all you need to do is send off an email and a copy of the code in question to the correct authorities. that automatically grants authorisation to distribute said code, under an open source license. luke On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 08:02:20PM +0200, Sander Striker

Legal issues, DES

2001-06-03 Thread Sander Striker
Hi, Maybe a bit off topic, but are there still legal issues with DES implementations? I mean, if someone submitted a patch would it be possible to include des in apr-util/crypto, or would this be problematic. DES is still in use in a variety of things, so providing the functionality wouldn't be

Re: Legal issues, DES

2001-06-03 Thread Cliff Woolley
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Sander Striker wrote: Maybe a bit off topic, but are there still legal issues with DES implementations? I mean, if someone submitted a patch would it be possible to include des in apr-util/crypto, or would this be problematic. DES is still in use in a variety of things,

Re: Legal issues, DES

2001-06-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 02:16:48PM -0400, Cliff Woolley wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Sander Striker wrote: Maybe a bit off topic, but are there still legal issues with DES implementations? I mean, if someone submitted a patch would it be possible to include des in apr-util/crypto, or