linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: vmx: Remove dubiously licensed crypto code

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Date:   Fri, 05 May 2017 20:11:53 +0200
From:   Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@...e.de>,
        Paulo Flabiano Smorigo <pfsmorigo@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     "Leonidas S. Barbosa" <leosilva@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, appro@...nssl.org,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: vmx: Remove dubiously licensed crypto code

On Fri, 2017-05-05 at 15:52 +0200, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> 
> So you have an e-mail message from one of the authors of the code.
> Andy Polyakov wrote most of the code but there are probably other
> contributors who never gave explicit consent for using their code
> outside of OpenSSL.

The only contributions to that file in OpenSSL that isn't from Andy
are a whitespace fix and the addition of the licence :-)

If that makes you feel better we could undo the whitespace fix :-)

I've checked the other PowerPC related files in there and the situation
is identical (aes-ppc.pl does have also a spelling fix in comments).

At this point, it's pretty clear that this code is authored solely by
Andy who gave permission to use it.

Cheers,
Ben.