Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:18:19 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Ben Mesander <ben@timing.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sbin/md5 license problem Message-ID: <80259.1119388699@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Jun 2005 13:48:06 MDT." <200506211948.j5LJm60r000859@piglet.timing.com>
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In message <200506211948.j5LJm60r000859@piglet.timing.com>, Ben Mesander writes : >All, > > I have been researching the license found on sbin/md5/md5.c . This >file is the command-line wrapper for functionality found in libmd. >The CVS log for the initial commit to the FreeBSD vendor branch (can >be viewed via: >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/md5/md5.c ) says: > >"Incorproate version of md5 placed into public domain by RSA." > >But the license text in this commit is identical to the above, and >is clearly not public domain. I retained the exact source file to avoid any risk of introducing bugs. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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