[Bug 583251] Review Request: dcfldd - Improved dd, useful for forensics and security

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--- Comment #6 from Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> 2010-04-19 12:38:54 EDT ---
Okay. So, the latter two licenses are just BSD. The top one would be a problem
(Free but GPL-incompatible), but because it is from RSA and covers the "MD5
Message Digest Algorithm", it isn't.

The full explanation is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/FAQ#MD5

The short version: We can treat the code under that license as "Copyright
Only", but we should advise the dcfldd upstream of the license incompatibility
and recommend that they "use" this code without RSA's license as well, and
reflect that usage in the source code by removing RSA's license (but not RSA's
copyright).

The license tag should be

# Note that we are using the RSA MD5 code without license.
# See: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:FAQ#MD5
License: GPLv2+ and BSD and Copyright Only

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