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Re: IKE reference implementations

To: Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net>
Subject: Re: IKE reference implementations
From: Niels Provos <provos@citi.umich.edu>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 03:05:07 -0400
Cc: ipsec@lists.tislabs.com
In-Reply-To: Henry Spencer, Sun, 17 Oct 1999 00:14:30 EDT
Sender: owner-ipsec@lists.tislabs.com

In message <Pine.BSI.3.91.991016235924.23430A-100000@spsystems.net>, Henry Spen
cer writes:
>If I am not mistaken -- I haven't looked at a recent OpenBSD -- the IKE
>implementation in OpenBSD is not public domain any more than the one in
>FreeS/WAN is.  The details of what is permitted differ, but both impose
>restrictions... and neither set of restrictions is likely to present any
>great problem for the sort of use the original request implied.
The poster's question implied software that could be freely reused.
The BSD-license implies such free reuse, and thus its restrictions do
not matter.  This is unfortunatly not true for the GPL.

>(Dept of Full Disclosure:  I've got a foot in both camps, since I'm
>technical head of the FreeS/WAN project, but I prefer BSD-style licensing
>over GNU-style when the choice is mine.)

Greetings,
 Niels.

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