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Posted to legal-discuss@apache.org by "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net> on 2005/08/31 04:10:17 UTC
Re: IDEA block cipher inclusion via the "bouncy castle" JCE
provider
At 08:58 AM 8/30/2005, Bill Stoddard wrote:
>Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>
>>Another approach would be to petition bouncycastle.org to provide a
>>distribution of the software w/o the algorithm included.
>
>This seems to be the most reasonable approach. I would argue today that BC is not open source, by the OSI definition (http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php) due to the presence of the IDEA algorithm in their distribition. They are violating their own license.
Totally +1 (smells of a submarine). As much as it pains us to
say "drat - but let's make an exception for just this one" ...
that is not a good solution for the long term health of the
foundation or its projects.
Bill
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