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Re: [avr-chat] µC/avr crypto lib
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David Kelly |
Subject: |
Re: [avr-chat] µC/avr crypto lib |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:46:14 -0500 |
On Jul 24, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Bob Blick wrote:
I think that is just one point of view. Part of the spirit of GPL is
to
further public development. That is why code I release to the public
is
released under GPL. I want improvements to it done by others available
to the public.
The sprit of GPL is that Richard Stallman saw the Lisp environment he
worked on claimed by a financial backer and turned into a successful
commercial product and locked him out of all the source, even the
parts he had written. The result was an extreme knee-jerk reaction to
the left known as GPL.
The BSD license is more open and more free specifically because you
may use the code for anything in any way other than to claim it as
your original work. The BSD license does not allow for itself to be
revoked. Once BSD-licensed code is out in the wild it can never be
pulled back. That is exactly the problem Richard Stallman overreacted
to in creating GPL.
There is nothing about the BSD license which hinders public development.
We already see Daniel Otte not only wants GPL to require users to
contribute fixes and enhancements back, but that he wants to own those
changes so that he can sell licenses outside of GPL. This is called,
"Having your cake and eating it too." That means everyone else has to
abide by GPL, but he is above it.
Haven't heard of any justification as to why Daniel's crypto library
is better than the totally free pubic domain TomCrypt. Or the Lesser-
GPL genuine FSF GNU libgcrypt: http://directory.fsf.org/project/libgcrypt/
The reason the BSD license works is that businesses and entrepreneurs
can postpone their decision as to whether any changes they have made
are a competitive advantage, or just a nuisance to maintain. And
meanwhile protect their original work.
As for GPL, link it into proprietary code and immediately one loses
one's rights to the proprietary code. Its not just the library that is
GPL but the entire project. LGPL was created in recognition of this,
and to emphasize that property of GPL. LGPL is not a copyright virus,
but GPL is.
Apple lifted many BSD parts of FreeBSD for MacOS X. Apple has
contributed huge amounts of code and work back into BSD. What I
happened to see the most was in NFS support and bug fixes.
--
David Kelly N4HHE, address@hidden
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
- Re: [avr-chat] ?C/avr crypto lib, (continued)
- Re: [avr-chat] ?C/avr crypto lib, David Kelly, 2008/07/24
- Re: [avr-chat] µC/avr crypto lib, Daniel Otte, 2008/07/24
- Re: RE: [avr-chat] µC/avr crypto lib, Bob Blick, 2008/07/24
- RE: RE: [avr-chat] µC/avr crypto lib, Alan Brumley, 2008/07/24
- Re: [avr-chat] µC/avr crypto lib, Rick Altherr, 2008/07/24
- Re: Re: [avr-chat] µC/avr crypto lib, Bob Blick, 2008/07/24
- Re: Re: [avr-chat] µC/avr crypto lib, Dustin Lang, 2008/07/24
- Re: [avr-chat] µC/avr crypto lib, David Kelly, 2008/07/24
- Re: [avr-chat] µC/avr crypto lib, Joerg Wunsch, 2008/07/25
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- Re: [avr-chat] µC/avr crypto lib, Michael N. Moran, 2008/07/26
- Re: [avr-chat] µC/avr crypto lib,
David Kelly <=
- Re: [avr-chat] µC/avr crypto lib, Bob Blick, 2008/07/24
- RE: [avr-chat] µC/avr crypto lib, Weddington, Eric, 2008/07/25
- Re: [avr-chat] µC/avr crypto lib, Bob Blick, 2008/07/25
- RE: [avr-chat] µC/avr crypto lib, Weddington, Eric, 2008/07/25
- Re: RE: [avr-chat] µC/avr crypto lib, Bob Blick, 2008/07/25
- Re: RE: [avr-chat] µC/avr crypto lib, Joerg Wunsch, 2008/07/25
- Re: [avr-chat] µC/avr crypto lib, Bernard Fouché, 2008/07/25
Re: [avr-chat] µC/avr crypto lib, Joerg Wunsch, 2008/07/24