Re: [PATCH] crypto: vmx: Remove dubiously licensed crypto code

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>,
	"Paulo Flabiano Smorigo" <pfsmorigo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Leonidas S. Barbosa" <leosilva@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	appro@openssl.org, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: vmx: Remove dubiously licensed crypto code
Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 20:11:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1494007913.25766.411.camel@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170505155241.2274f347@kitsune.suse.cz>

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.