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Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:43:13 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: GPL license is not free at all (was: unrar license is not compatible with gpl, it is not free at all

On 29 Sep, 2012, at 22:43 , Alexander Cherepanov <cherepan@...me.ru> wrote:

> On 2012-09-29 16:47, magnum wrote:
>> This is a list of files containing any reference to GPL:
...
> There are more files:
> 
> $ git grep -l gpl
> opencl/cryptsha256_kernel_AMD.cl
> opencl/cryptsha256_kernel_DEFAULT.cl
> opencl/cryptsha256_kernel_NVIDIA.cl
> opencl/cryptsha512_kernel_AMD.cl
> opencl/cryptsha512_kernel_DEFAULT.cl
> opencl/cryptsha512_kernel_NVIDIA.cl
> opencl/msha_kernel.cl
> opencl/sha1_kernel.cl
> opencl/sha512-ng_kernel.cl
> opencl/sha512-ng_kernel_LOCAL.cl
> opencl/ssha_kernel.cl
> opencl_cryptsha256.h
> opencl_cryptsha256_fmt.c
> opencl_cryptsha512.h
> opencl_cryptsha512_fmt.c
> opencl_device_info.h
> opencl_mysqlsha1_fmt.c
> opencl_nsldaps_fmt.c
> opencl_rawsha1_fmt.c
> opencl_rawsha512-ng.h
> opencl_rawsha512-ng_fmt.c

Oh man, all these are our own files. Why did the authors opt to use GPL? Was it on purpose? Maybe I miss the whole point of GPL but to me it seems to do more harm than good. Extremism is not freedom. We are an open source project, yet GPL right now just sucks our energy.

magnum

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