sbin/md5 license problem
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Jun 21 21:18:26 GMT 2005
In message <200506211948.j5LJm60r000859 at 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.
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