Re: snow3g dissector in violation of GPLv2+

[Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com>]

2014/1/16 Joerg Mayer <jmayer () loplof de>

> 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.

Hi,

I don't know if it matters or not (as I'm not a lawyer and barely know
anything about GPLv2 requirements) but the algorithm source code is
available from here:
http://www.gsma.com/technicalprojects/fraud-security/security-algorithms

Pascal.

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