These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
Let's take inspiration from bluez's ELL library, and let's move our
cryptographic primitives away from libgcrypt and towards the kernel's AF_ALG
cryptographic userspace API.
In the long run we should try to remove the dependency on libgcrypt, in favour
of using only the kernel's own primitives, however this is unlikely to happen
anytime soon, as the kernel does not provide Elliptic Curve APIs to userspace
at this time, and we need them for the DNSSEC cryptographic.
This commit only covers hashing for now, symmetric encryption/decryption or
even asymetric encryption/decryption is not available for now.
"khash" is little more than a lightweight wrapper around the kernel's AF_ALG
socket API.
Lennart Poettering