On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Yoshisato YANAGISAWA <[email protected]> wrote: >> Not to mention there are software patent claims againt camellia. That's >> a no go right there. > > OpenBSD has already included Camellia source code as a part of OpenSSL. It > is disabled by default, though. > At the time OpenSSL included Camellia, NTT had shown following news release: > http://www.ntt.co.jp/news/news01e/0104/010417.html > > NTT also announced that their Camellia implementation also becomes open > source distributed under BSDL, GPL, and so on: > http://www.ntt.co.jp/news/news06e/0604/060413a.html > > Are there any problems?
The first link says "Caution: This statement is valid only for implementing Camellia, EPOC, PSEC, and ESIGN, respectively, as is, and does not permit modification of said algorithms." The second link says you no longer need to apply to get a license, but still restricts it to only people using Camellia. Free software you can't modify is not free software.
