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Re: crypt...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Corinna Vinschen" <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 2:32 AM
Subject: Re: crypt...


> On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 11:38:39PM +1000, Gareth Pearce wrote:
> > I was wondering if (other than for someone to actually do it) there was
some
> > explicit reason for crypt to be seperate to cygwin?  Sort of makes
> > satisfying SUSv2 unistd.h impossible...  I see its optional in SUSv3 ...
> > Sure its simple to work arround, but it would be nice if it 'just
worked'.
>
> It was originally included to get passwords for 9x.  It doesn't fit into
> Cygwin itself due to licensing constraints.  Therefore an extra library.

the gpl type licensing constraints or something else? (I would of imaginged
there was some bsd crypt out there that would satisfy the first?) (given the
level of availability of 56bit DES, I wouldnt of thought it was patent)

Gareth

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