Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-apr-dev-archive@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 82219 invoked by uid 500); 4 Jun 2001 13:38:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@apr.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 82202 invoked from network); 4 Jun 2001 13:38:13 -0000 Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 15:36:47 +0200 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: Sander Striker Cc: dev@apr.apache.org Subject: Re: Legal issues, DES Message-ID: <20010604153647.H25358@angua.rince.de> Mail-Followup-To: Sander Striker , dev@apr.apache.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from striker@samba-tng.org on Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 08:02:20PM +0200 X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N these days, if you are in the u.s.: all you need to do is send off an email and a copy of the code in question to the correct authorities. that automatically grants authorisation to distribute said code, under an open source license. luke On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 08:02:20PM +0200, Sander Striker wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe a bit off topic, but are there still legal issues with > DES implementations? I mean, if someone submitted a patch > would it be possible to include des in apr-util/crypto, or > would this be problematic. DES is still in use in a variety > of things, so providing the functionality wouldn't be that > strange I think. > > Thoughts anyone, > > Sander