perfsonar development work

[Stijn Melis <>]

Thanks,

I tried this class, and it still works. So no need to worry about 
licensing issues with the other class.

Regards,

Stijn

Cándido Rodríguez Montes wrote:
> Hi Sitjn,
> there is a class in the WSS4J library that encodes/decodes in 
> base64: org.apache.ws.security.util.Base64. It's a library that I'm 
> using in some client authn libraries and in the AS (I've included in the 
> ant script of perfSONAR base), so maybe you want to use it and you 
> wouldn't need to include that external code.
>
> Regards
>
> El 30/11/2007, a las 11:23, Stijn Melis escribió:
>
> > Hi Nicolas,
> >
> > I was most of all concerned about using the code, and then afterwards 
> > finding out that I wasn't allowed to do so by some license restriction 
> > I wasn't aware of. I don't want to be responsible for perfSONAR 
> > breaking copyright laws ;)
> >
> > I did mention the guy in the author tag when I used the code, so I'm 
> > not taking the credit when it isn't my work.
> >
> > So basically I was most concerned about the license, and I wanted to 
> > get a green light from the management to use it.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Stijn
> >
> > Nicolas Simar wrote:
> > > Hi Stijn,
> > > can you please tell me more specifically what triggered your question?
> > > - the license
> > > - courtesy to the guy who developed it
> > > - advices from the developers on why to do it
> > > - green light from the management
> > > Cheers,
> > > Nicolas
> > > Stijn Melis wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > During the development of the password encryption for the 
> > > > service.properties file for the SSHTELNET MP, I needed an 
> > > > implementation of the Base64 encoding. I found a link on google 
> > > > where it states:
> > > >
> > > > "There are a lot of BASE64 encoding/decoding implementations in 
> > > > Java. For example, you may use my own implementation Base64.java." 
> > > > (http://www.izhuk.com/painter/product/doc/base64.htm).
> > > >
> > > > I used this code in my implementation of the password encryption. Is 
> > > > this allowed? Or do I need to explicity ask him if I can use it? Or 
> > > > implement a Base64 encoding myself (although I feel this might be a 
> > > > bit of a waste of time)?
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Stijn
>
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