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

Enrico Scholz enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Wed Sep 19 07:30:42 UTC 2007


Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> 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.

I have to revert this. I do not have a reason to assume, that not the
public domain version from RFC 1321 was used for this implementation.


Enrico
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