perfsonar development work

[Eric Boyd <>]

That seems wise.

The general rule is that we don't want anything in perfSONAR that 
requires a GPL-style license or closed source license.

--Eric

Stijn Melis wrote:
> I have no idea. I've been looking at his site, and there is no license 
> mentioned. However, since both Nina and Cándido have provided me with 
> a class which does Base64 encoding, I think I'll change my code and 
> try to use one of those.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stijn
>
> Nicolas Simar wrote:
> > What license is he using?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > nicolas
> >
> > Stijn Melis wrote:
> > > 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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