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Re: snow3g dissector in violation of GPLv2+


From: ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:16:57 -0800

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Joerg Mayer <jmayer () loplof de> wrote:
commit b01a99c385bc80566cff9134f93b5d4680dd5a58
Author: Martin Mathieson <martin.r.mathieson () googlemail com>
Date:   Tue Jan 14 11:09:47 2014 +0000

    Provide hook for calling EEA1 implementation (Snow3G).  Implementation not supplied due to licensing conditions.  
TODO: EIA1.

    svn path=/trunk/; revision=54782

This violates the GPLv2 requirement of not linking against code that is
neither GPLv2 compatible nor a system library.
This is not what open source is about. As long as we'd have any implementation
that's GPLv2+ compatible with an identical API it would be fine to use another
implementation, but code linking against a lib that doesn't exist is not acceptable.

That matches my understanding too.
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