Secure Messaging Protocol (SMP) Libraries [ACL, CML, SFL]

Distribution Rights

All source code for the SMP is being provided at no cost and with no
financial limitations regarding its use and distribution. Organizations can
use the SMP without paying any royalties or licensing fees. The SMP was
originally developed by the U.S. Government. BAE Systems is enhancing and
supporting the SMP under contract to the U.S. Government. The U.S.
Government is furnishing the SMP software at no cost to the vendor subject
to the conditions of the SMP Public License provided with the SMP software.

29 May 2002

Secure Messaging Protocol (SMP) Public License

The United States Government/Department of Defense/National Security
Agency/Office of Network Security (collectively "the U.S. Government")
hereby grants permission to any person obtaining a copy of the SMP source
and object files (the "SMP Software") and associated documentation files
(the "SMP Documentation"), or any portions thereof, to do the following,
subject to the following license conditions:

You may, free of charge and without additional permission from the U.S.
Government, use, copy, modify, sublicense and otherwise distribute the SMP
Software or components of the SMP Software, with or without modifications
developed by you and/or by others.

You may, free of charge and without additional permission from the U.S.
Government, distribute copies of the SMP Documentation, with or without
modifications developed by you and/or by others, at no charge or at a
charge that covers the cost of reproducing such copies, provided that this
SMP Public License is retained.

Furthermore, if you distribute the SMP Software or parts of the SMP
Software, with or without modifications developed by you and/or others,
then you must either make available the source code to all portions of the
SMP Software (exclusive of any modifications made by you and/or by others)
upon request, or instead you may notify anyone requesting the SMP Software
source code that it is freely available from the U.S. Government.

Transmission of this SMP Public License must accompany whatever portions of
the SMP Software you redistribute.

The SMP Software is provided without warranty or guarantee of any nature,
express or implied, including without limitation the warranties of
merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

The U.S. Government cannot be held liable for any damages either directly
or indirectly caused by the use of the SMP Software.

It is not permitted to copy, sublicense, distribute or transfer any of the
SMP Software except as expressly indicated herein. Any attempts to do
otherwise will be considered a violation of this License and your rights to
the SMP Software will be voided.

The SMP uses the Enhanced SNACC (eSNACC) Abstract Syntax Notation One
(ASN.1) C++ Library to ASN.1 encode and decode security-related data
objects. The eSNACC ASN.1 C++ Library is covered by the ENHANCED SNACC
SOFTWARE PUBLIC LICENSE. None of the GNU public licenses apply to the
eSNACC ASN.1 C++ Library. The eSNACC Compiler is not distributed as part of
the SMP.

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