On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 06:58:44PM +0100, David Paleino wrote:
> src/x86-64.S:
> - you state that some functions are based on nonstd.c, others on sboxes.c
> (both by Matthew Kwan), but don't clearly give a licensing statement.
> That's your code, your choice to release it under GPLv2 or Matthew-Kwan's
> micro-license.
Since I don't give a license specifically in that file, it is currently
being licensed under GPLv2 along with the rest of JtR. Yes, I could
have used Matthew Kwan's micro-license, but I did not. As you know,
GPLv2 is compatible with it (but far more restrictive), so this
transition is OK. I see no need to mention the license in that source
file explicitly.
Also, I don't think that I am bound by Matthew Kwan's micro-license
here, as all that I really used was optimized S-box expressions, not
code. I doubt that optimized versions of boolean expressions,
originally derived from tables in the DES specification, are subject to
copyright at all. But I am not a lawyer, and luckily this does not
matter this time.
> src/x86-mmx.S
> src/x86-sse.S:
> - same issue as src/x86-64.S
Same answer.
> - missing copyright years for authors other than you ;-)
Well, the file I got this from was sboxes-mmx.cpp in a distributed.net
DES client. It had:
// MMX implementation of Kwan's sboxes
//
// Bruce Ford
// RИmi Guyomarch
//
//
// $Log: sboxes-mmx.cpp,v $
// Revision 1.5 1998/11/16 15:39:50 remi
// Deleted older sboxes.
//
// Revision 1.4 1998/09/28 22:09:23 remi
// Cleared 3 warnings.
//
// Revision 1.3 1998/07/12 05:29:16 fordbr
// Replaced sboxes 1, 2 and 7 with Kwan versions
// Now 1876 kkeys/s on a P5-200MMX
//
// Revision 1.2 1998/07/08 23:42:28 remi
// Added support for CliIdentifyModules().
//
// Revision 1.1 1998/07/08 15:43:52 remi
// First integration of the MMX bitslicer.
(I've obfuscated the e-mail addresses in the quote above, although as
far as I'm aware they're non-working anyway.)
So this is 1998, but frankly I am not 100% sure they are the copyright
holders. As you can see, there was no copyright statement in that
source file. Maybe there was one on the DES client as a whole, but I'm
not sure I can locate a copy of it now (it does not appear to be
available for download anymore). Since I doubt that Bruce and Remi ever
transferred their copyright to anyone, such as to distributed.net,
I just assumed that they remained the copyright holders.
I had explicit permission from them to include the code in JtR.
> Also, it would be great if I added mail contacts for Matthew Kwan,
You can find Matthew's e-mail address here:
http://www.darkside.com.au/bitslice/
> Bruce Ford and R??mi Guyomarch
Unfortunately, I completely lost contact with them around Y2K, when I
wanted to transform the "explicit permission" into a specific license.
This bothers me too. If you manage to contact one or both of them,
please do let me know!
Thanks,
Alexander
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