SSL negotiation protosol in CIFS

[Michal Trojnara]

Simo Sorce wrote:
> Studying how things works, and making your own code, is not
> restricted by GPL (remeber GPL is a copyright licence, not
> a patent to protect alghoritms or an NDA you sign with the
> author) (3).

It's not so clear.  See:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/05/08/reverse.engineering.idg/
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-09/lw-09-gnu_p.html

> I urge you to read some doc explaining GPL if you do not
> believe me, because I'm weel involved with free software
> associations and I know what I am speaking about.

Belive me: I always read all I can before posting to a mailing list.  8-)

Thank you very much for your answer.  It was very helpful.

Best regards,
    Mike