From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29523 invoked by alias); 26 Oct 2004 20:33:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact mauve-discuss-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: mauve-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 29516 invoked from network); 26 Oct 2004 20:33:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gnu.wildebeest.org) (82.161.94.186) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 26 Oct 2004 20:33:12 -0000 Received: from slauerhoff.wildebeest.org ([192.168.1.27] ident=mark) by gnu.wildebeest.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CMXza-0002BL-00; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 22:32:30 +0200 Subject: Re: X.509 certificate tests From: Mark Wielaard To: Casey Marshall Cc: tromey@redhat.com, mauve-discuss@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <87fz41gy3q.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878y9um3q2.fsf@gnu.org> <87mzy9h0ea.fsf@gnu.org> <87fz41gy3q.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-LezSI5/Mc60gvkcgWkHV" Message-Id: <1098822778.2556.61.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:33:00 -0000 X-SW-Source: 2004-q4/txt/msg00028.txt.bz2 --=-LezSI5/Mc60gvkcgWkHV Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 2068 Hi, On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 19:58, Casey Marshall wrote: > The test suite was developed by the US government, so it is not > subject to copyright. >=20 > Parts were contracted out by the NSA, but it seems that they have > stated that the test files are freely redistributable [1]. Please add the following text from that to the README: The test document and data were jointly developed by NIST and=20 DigitalNet. Any contribution made to this project by NIST is cover= ed by=20 Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code which states that an= y=20 work developed by the United State Government is not subject to=20 copyright protection (see http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/105= .html). So, NIST's contributions to the test documentation and data are in = the public domain. =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 While DigitalNet's contributions to the documentation and data may = be=20 subject to copyright, all of the work done by DigitalNet on this pr= oject=20 was done under contract for NSA. So, it would be up to NSA to deci= de=20 how DigitalNet's contributions to the project could be used. In=20 response to your query, I asked DigitalNet about the use of the tes= t=20 suite and received the following response: =20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20 "V51 [of NSA] approved of the public release of the PKITS test = data=20 and documents. There are no restrictions regarding their redistrib= ution." when you add this data. Although we are more relaxed about accepting contributions to Mauve than with for example GNU Classpath (for which we require written confirmation by all contributors) we still want to have a record who contributed what when. This can be done in the ChangeLog and the README file though. Even if it wouldn't be a very big disaster if we ever have to remove a test from mauve we should try to prevent ever having to be in such a situation and prevent any unclearity about the origins of any of the tests. Thanks, Mark --=-LezSI5/Mc60gvkcgWkHV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-length: 189 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBBfrR6xVhZCJWr9QwRAgy6AJ9l4Yv64BS46+Da+k4aaMku+M/ZagCfXPVJ J+L8yIrHfSYdDvzQ8trdqvA= =86+a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-LezSI5/Mc60gvkcgWkHV--