Re: Notice: My 2nd crypto book finished :-)

Simon Johnson wrote:
Btw, where can one download your books, as pdf files, for free (like,
for instance, HAC)? Yes, considering the FOR FREE PUBLIC DOMAIN crusade
you are making on this mailing list since now five years, I suppose that
your books can be downloaded for free somewhere.

I don't think there's a crusade. A BSD license is the only license that
makes sense for a crypto library.

My projects are public domain.

A closed source library can't have its internals readily examined. A
library covered by the GPL limits its usefulness to the point of not
being worth the time or effort.

GPL does hinder the usefulness in a variety of commercial ventures
[whether RMS fans choose to acknowledge such instances or not]

Tom is not Stallmanite - the BSD license was a pragmatic choice of
license and one that I agree with.

I'd say what I do goes a bit beyond the goals of the FSF. Where FSF is
meant to bring "freedoms" to the users [and in turn developers] what I
do also brings them knowledge to do something about it.

Tom

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