Re: Questions about libntru license/ntru patent status

2016-02-24 Thread Walter Landry
Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 06:53 +0900, William Whyte wrote: >> I'll get our legal people to have a look at what that's meant to mean >> and see if we can get clarification. > > Great, thanks. > > My first thought was that Tor couldn't link with other GPLed software too. My impres

Re: Questions about libntru license/ntru patent status

2016-02-24 Thread Walter Landry
Zhu-Zhu Chin wrote: > I'm no legal expert but Tor is BSD-licensed, so if you incorporated > GPL'd code [1], all of Tor would have to switch to the GPL. Tor itself would not have to switch. Distributors would have to be careful when distributing binaries, which is something that Tor may or may no

Re: Questions about libntru license/ntru patent status

2016-02-24 Thread William Whyte
>My first thought was that Tor couldn't link with other GPLed software too. Yeah, that's not the intent. I'll find out what the story is meant to be here. Cheers, William On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 06:53 +0900, William Whyte wrote: > > > I think

Re: Questions about libntru license/ntru patent status

2016-02-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 06:53 +0900, William Whyte wrote: > I think that entire FOSS Exception statement was imported from some > other project. That often isn't the best idea for custom licenses. > I'll get our legal people to have a look at what that's meant to mean > and see if we can get clari

Re: Questions about libntru license/ntru patent status

2016-02-24 Thread William Whyte
I think that entire FOSS Exception statement was imported from some other project. I'll get our legal people to have a look at what that's meant to mean and see if we can get clarification. Cheers, William On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 3:41 AM, Nic

Re: Questions about libntru license/ntru patent status

2016-02-24 Thread Zhu-Zhu Chin
I'm no legal expert but Tor is BSD-licensed, so if you incorporated GPL'd code [1], all of Tor would have to switch to the GPL.If that is a problem, it might be a better idea to use the BSD-licensed implementation of NTRU [2] instead. It has the added benefit of being more efficient.[1] GPL impleme

Re: Questions about libntru license/ntru patent status

2016-02-24 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 3:41 AM, Nick Mathewson wrote: > > https://github.com/NTRUOpenSourceProject/ntru-crypto/blob/master/FOSS%20Exception.md I wonder what this clause means: b. The Derivative Work does not include any work licensed under the GPL other than the GPLed NTRU; -- bye, pabs