Re: [OctDev] list of primes using D. Bernsteins fast primegen library

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 14-Jun-2006, David Bateman wrote:
> 
> | Yes, the license needs to be checked..
> 
> OK, DJB has some interesting ideas about licenses, and some
> (incomeplete) information here: http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html.
> Note that he doesn't think he needs to use an explicit license (or
> apparently any other identifying marks in most files).  He also states
> that "Some of my software is in the public domain" but that's a fairly
> useless statement since we don't know which software he considers to
> have this status, and without an explicit statement, we can't assume
> anything other than the normal copyright (I would assume at least no
> unauthorized redistribution).
> 
> jwe
> 

He is also rather aggressive of his particular interpretation of his
licenses. Given statements like

<quote>
We can't distribute software that we're not allowed to modify!
Is that a question?

You hypocrites distributed Netscape Navigator for years without even
being able to see the source code. And now you're lying to your users,
telling them that I am not allowing you to incorporate my software into
your system. Have you no shame?

(Red Hat's Bernard Rosenkraenzer has no shame. ``qmail and djbdns are
not open source, so we aren't going to ship them unless the license
changes,'' he wrote on 2001-04-16. ``Netscape will disappear in future
releases, so it won't be hypocritical any more.'')
</quote>

Worth a chance asking him for a GPL release of primegen, but Torsten I
think you might be trouble getting him to agree to it. GPL'ed like
octave can't include code that can't also be distributed under the GPL.
So unless Bernstien agrees that primegen can be included in a GPL
program under the conditions of the GPL, I think your code will have a
separate existence.

Regards
David