25.02.2016, 15:30, "Walter Landry" <wlan...@caltech.edu>: > Tor would have to provide source with their binaries, which is > something that they already do. The code that the Tor project writes > could still be BSD licensed. So if someone wants to make a pure BSD > version, all they would have to do is take out the NTRU parts.
So in particular, if the Tor Project wanted to make a pure BSD version, they would have to take out the NTRU parts. But I don't the Tor project wants that because then you'd have NTRU Tor clients and non-NTRU ones, the latter not being able to talk to the NTRU-enabled clients. Another way for Tor to deal with the patent problem is to not implement NTRU until the NTRU patent expires in Aug 2017. > As I understand it, the GPL'd NTRU implementation is distributed by > the patent holders. The GPL implicitly grants a patent license. The > BSD licensed version does not have this patent license. OK, that makes sense. Regards, Zhu-Zhu
