[Fedora-legal-list] Re: Legal Problem: md5 implementation

[Enrico Scholz]

"Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa at redhat.com> writes:

> Some of Fedora's packages are using an MD5 implementation which is under
> a GPLv2/v3 incompatible license, specifically, the RSA implementation
> which is under BSD with advertising.
> ...
> If your package is on this list, please email me back and let me know
> once you've checked the md5 implementation. If it is the RSA
> implementation,

dietlibc is affected.

BUT... the md5 source code is part of RFC 1321. AFAIK, RFCs are under
some public domain license which should allow use of this code under any
license. E.g. top of this RFC says

| Distribution of this memo is unlimited.



Enrico