[Lazarus] is scrypt available?

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On 28/10/2015 23:02 μμ, wkitty42 at windstream.net wrote:
> On 10/28/2015 03:32 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> wkitty42 at windstream.net wrote:
>>> On 10/28/2015 01:00 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>>> wkitty42 at windstream.net wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> the above link is the license URL... the stuff about patents is 
>>>>> off putting to
>>>>> say the least...
>>>>
>>>> Apologies for chopping the bulk of that message, but it's coming over
>>>> unformatted.
>>>
>>> no problem... i do take steps to reformat some quotes some times...
>>>
>>>> The patents issue relating to zlib etc. is way out of date, see
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZW#Patents for a summary.
>>>
>>> it isn't those patent issues... there's something else that the 
>>> license link
>>> page talks about...
>>
>> Go on...
>
> crypto patents or something, i guess... it says that if there are any 
> patents in the software that the code cannot be used... click the link 
> and read it and you'll see it, too...
>
That's not what it says at all.
what its says is that even if you do use an other library, the scrypt 
algorithm is the same so you do need check for patents on it and comply 
with your countries patent laws. In any case the library's license is 
less restrictive than mpl.