john-users - Re: Contribution licensing

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Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 03:38:50 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Contribution licensing

On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 04:42:24PM -0600, RB wrote:
> As a very belated follow-up, I did make contact with Ryan on this, and
> he's both on-board with licensing his work under the BSD license and
> with helping work on any future improvements.  As I have time over the
> coming months, I'll try to wrap up the remaining loose ends on that
> work.

Great.  Why BSD license, though?  And which one (some are GPL-compatible,
some are not)? - http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/

Is Ryan uncomfortable with one of the options suggested at
http://openwall.info/wiki/john/licensing ?

Thanks,

Alexander