Re: Questions about libntru license/ntru patent status

2016-05-13 Thread William Whyte
< ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: > William Whyte writes ("Re: Questions about libntru license/ntru patent > status"): > > Sorry for having let this drift for so long. Way back at the start > > of the discussion, as we got into the discussion of the FOSS

Re: Questions about libntru license/ntru patent status

2016-04-15 Thread William Whyte
.greenend.org.uk> wrote: > William Whyte writes ("Re: Questions about libntru license/ntru patent > status"): > > On the FOSS Exception, > > > https://github.com/NTRUOpenSourceProject/ntru-crypto/blob/master/FOSS%20Exception.md > : > > the intent here i

Re: Questions about libntru license/ntru patent status

2016-03-11 Thread William Whyte
Hi all -- any thoughts on this? Would it make things easier if we changed to a "whitelist" license policy, or is the rationale below for the structure of the FOSS exception sufficient? Cheers, William On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 6:55 PM, William Whyte wrote: > Hi all, > >

Re: Questions about libntru license/ntru patent status

2016-03-04 Thread William Whyte
Hi all, Sorry for the delay responding: I've been traveling, then sick. On patents: Yes, the license at https://github.com/NTRUOpenSourceProject/ntru-crypto/blob/master/LICENSE.md grants a license to use the patents under GPL v2 or higher. On the FOSS Exception, https://github.com/NTRUOpenSource

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

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