[Opendnssec-develop] pkcs11.h license

[Roland van Rijswijk]

Hi Jakob,

Did this person motivate why the PKCS #11 headers aren't GPL compatible?
 Because I've done some searching and had a good look at the licensing
and I don't think this is the case. There are PKCS #11 _modules_ that
are not GPL compatible (a lot of information can be found on this), but
the PKCS #11 headers themselves aren't necessarily GPL incompatible.

I would advise against using third party PKCS #11 headers simply for
this reason, and it is debatable whether typing out the header file
yourself is not a violation of RSA's license.

Just my 2 cents...

Cheers,

Roland

Jakob Schlyter wrote:
> someone dropped me an email telling me that SoftHSM's pkcs11.h isn't
> GPL-compatible:
> 
>     http://www.opendnssec.se/browser/trunk/softHSM/src/pkcs11.h
> 
> now, we have a BSD-license, but if someone would like to use it in a GPL
> context we should perhaps look at:
> 
>     http://cvs.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/src/pkcs11.h?rev=30&root=Scute&view=markup
> 
> 
> rickard; could check if it would be possible to get rid of the RSA
> license by using the file above? (and the same for other files)
> 
> 
>     jakob
> 
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