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Re: [Nmh-workers] [patch] Exchange of MD5 implementation due to license
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Valdis . Kletnieks |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] [patch] Exchange of MD5 implementation due to license |
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Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:40:12 -0500 |
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:36:59 BST, markus schnalke said:
> nmh currently includes the reference MD5 implementation of RFC 1321.
> Unfortunately this has a ``problematic'' license. I dealt with this
> for another software project and asked on the debian-legal mailing
> list where concerns were mentioned [0]. Therefore packages for Debian
> for instance would probably need to have the md5 code replaced in
> order to comply to their Free Software guidelines.
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> [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/07/msg00032.html
Does nmh work usefully on any boxes that don't have OpenSSL
available? If not, can/should we just punt and use the OpenSSL
version?
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