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

[Stewart Smith]

Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:07:39 -0300 Paulo Flabiano Smorigo <pfsmorigo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 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.