Re: [GNU Crypto] JKS and reverse engineering

[Raif S. Naffah]

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hello Mak and Casey,

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 05:20 pm, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 06:23, Casey Marshall wrote:
> > > But since the FSF distributes GNU Crypto as an official GNU
> > > package it is best just to ask their position on this (they do
> > > take some legal risk by providing the official packages). I
> > > suggest just forwarding your message in which you explain how you
> > > reverse engineered the algorithm/file format (and why it is
> > > important for us to provide this to free software developers) to
> > > Richard Stallman and ask him whether the FSF wants to distribute
> > > this as part of GNU Crypto or that it is more appropriate to only
> > > link to the free implementation on you homepage.
> >
> > Is it appropriate to bug RMS about this? I would have assumed that
> > the FSF would have a place to ask questions like this, but I can't
> > find anything.
>
> I noticed that in the end whoever you ask they will almost always
> refer to RMS anyway. Maybe address@hidden is the correct place to
> ask. Since Raif is the official maintainer (I am not official GNU
> maintainer) he might have a more appropriate mail address like the
> mentors mailinglist. http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_4.html#SEC4
> suggests that there is a more detailed description for how to accept
> official contributions to GNU programs that Raif might have read.

i already asked RMS for advice --Sun, 22 Jun 2003 11:24 am.  as soon as 
i hear from him, i'll post a followup.


cheers;
rsn
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