From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b9b50bddffb51f31 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-10-24 20:53:45 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!freenix!proxad.net!grolier!btnet-peer0!btnet!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news2-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <39F659D4.FF061B2A@virgin.net> From: Julian Morrison X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: RSA implementation? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 04:56:04 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.252.40.7 X-Complaints-To: abuse@virgin.net X-Trace: news2-win.server.ntlworld.com 972446014 62.252.40.7 (Wed, 25 Oct 2000 04:53:34 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 04:53:34 BST Organization: Virgin Net Usenet Service Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:1535 Date: 2000-10-25T04:56:04+01:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article , Florian Weimer writes: > > Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) writes: > > > >> > Is there any GPL compatible Ada code out there that anyone knows of, that can > >> > do RSA encryption? > >> > >> Out of curiosity, what do you mean by "GPL compatible" ? > > > > It's a software licensing issue. "GPL compatible" means "can be used > > together with code released under the GPL". > > Are you certain Julian Morrison meant nothing more specific ? > > Might it not have been "can be bound into an image with code licensed > under the GPL" or "can be invoked as a shareable image from code licensed > under the GPL" ? In that latter sense, Windows NT is "GPL compatible". GPL compatible in this case means: I can use the package or whatever in creating a GPL'd Ada program. Preferably, as a nice neat Ada package that I can bundle into the source code distribution and it will just "gnatmake".