Sun donates elliptic curve code to OpenSSL?

[Peter Gutmann]

Greg Broiles <gbroiles at parrhesia.com> writes:

>Sun is promising not to sue people for patent infringement for using Sun's
>code as provided in the OpenSSL library, provided that the people who don't
>want to be sued comply with a list of conditions:
>
>(1) they promise not to sue Sun for infringing any of their own patents which
>might cover the use of the donated code
>
>(2) don't modify Sun's code as provided by Sun, don't use only parts of the
>donated code, and don't remove the license text from the code.

Doesn't this exclude it from being used in OpenSSL, since it violates the
license?

 * The licence and distribution terms for any publically available version or
 * derivative of this code cannot be changed.  i.e. this code cannot simply be
 * copied and put under another distribution licence
 * [including the GNU Public Licence.]

Peter.

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