Re: [PATCH 1/2] crypto: vmx - Adding asm subroutines for XTS

Stephen Rothwell [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:07:39 -0300 Paulo Flabiano Smorigo [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

diff --git a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aesp8-ppc.pl b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aesp8-ppc.pl
index 2280539..813ffcc 100644
--- a/drivers/crypto/vmx/aesp8-ppc.pl
+++ b/drivers/crypto/vmx/aesp8-ppc.pl

@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env perl
+#! /usr/bin/env perl
+# Copyright 2014-2016 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License").  You may not use
+# this file except in compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy
+# in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
+# https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html

So, I assume that this license is compatible with the GPLv2?

https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html has an
explanation and points to:
https://www.openssl.org/docs/faq.html#LEGAL2

which makes it anything but clearer.

it appears the answer is "probably not, unless you have an explicit
exemption in your license"

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.