HI folks, i just took over the dcd package and looked through the files for copyright notices due to the old copyright file made by the former maintainer. in this copyright a file is mentioned which is "public domain software". i don't know what's the way debian handles this. below are the relevant comments from the source code about copyright:
<quote> /* NIST Secure Hash Algorithm */ /* heavily modified by Uwe Hollerbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED] edu> */ /* from Peter C. Gutmann's implementation as found in */ /* Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier */ /* Further modifications to include the "UNRAVEL" stuff, below */ /* This code is in the public domain */ </quote> maybe someone can tell me in how far this is free/non-free. well i don't know bruce schneier's AC and therefore i don't know what one can do with code from schneier's book maybe someone else knows. thanks and so long Othmar
