[Fedora-legal-list] Re: Legal Problem: md5 implementation
Enrico Scholz
enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Tue Sep 18 10:25:39 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.
>> ...
http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/RSA-MD-all states
| Implementations of these message-digest algorithms, including
| implementations derived from the reference C code in RFC-1319, RFC-1320,
| and RFC-1321, may be made, used, and sold without license from RSA for
| any purpose.
This seems to allow relicensing with any license (inclusive GPL), doesn't
it?
Enrico
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