Comment 5 for bug 12605

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 01:27:55PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> debian-legal, how do other packages handle the md5 stuff?
>
> Copyright (C) 1991-2, RSA Data Security, Inc. Created 1991. All
> rights reserved.
>
> License to copy and use this software is granted provided that it
> is identified as the "RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest
> Algorithm" in all material mentioning or referencing this software
> or this function.
>
> License is also granted to make and use derivative works provided
> that such works are identified as "derived from the RSA Data
> Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm" in all material
> mentioning or referencing the derived work.
>
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This is the copy of md5.c fished out of the specification. We've seen
it before.

There are other variations of md5.c, at least one of which has either
a BSD or an MIT license, I forget which. Look around, you should find
one easily enough. They're more or less equivalent, you may have to
fiddle the function names.

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