? Can I Use the DES from UNIX passwd Source code?

Andrew Koenig ark at alice.UUCP
Sun Dec 18 13:01:22 AEST 1988


In article <3600017 at hpiacla.HP.COM>, jimb at hpiacla.HP.COM (Jim Brandt) writes:

> The passwd uses a DES algorithm, and I believe the algorithm is public
> domain, but if I used the algorithm from the source code of passwd in 
> another product, do I need to worry about copyright?

Yes you do.
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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark at europa.att.com



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