Andrew Francis wrote:

> This seems to directly contradict the license under which curl is
> distributed. (Specifically, the MIT/X license, I haven't waded through
> the MPL) Have I missed something? I'd appreciate some clarification on
> this.

There is no contradictions or related problems with the license of the
base64 source code. It is fully compatible with the MIT/X and MPL
licenses.

However, the license (which resembles the original BSD license) is not
compatible with the GPL license.

> In any event, I'm taking the safe route and coding up my own base64
> routines for release. (They're already mostly done, then it occured to
> me to check existing libraries and yank some well-tested code :) I'd be
> happy to contribute these to curl if there's actually any doubt
> regarding the base64 routines' legality.

This sounds like a good idea (partly to avoid having to insert credit
for something as simple as a base64 encoding/decoding, and partly to
be forthcomming to people using GPL).

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