Re: Legal Problem: md5 implementation

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Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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