[Pkg-running-devel] Garming plugin packages in Debian?

[Ralf Treinen]

Hi again,

On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 07:31:20AM +0200, Andreas Diesner wrote:
> Hi Ralf,
> 
> > However, it might also be worth looking into using the libgcrypt11
> library:
> I will have a look at libgcrypt11. If it is available in several
> distributions it will be a good idea to integrate it. The MD5 hash in the
> plugin can optional be used by a website to detect if a file has changed on
> the device - I have never seen a website using it so far ;-)

I just looked at the files in src/md5. The files md5.c and md5.h are of
course OK from the legal point of view (GPL2+), but unfortunately there also
is md5_loc.h from RSA. There are at least two problems with the licence of
that file:
- it does allow to "make and use" derivative works but not to redistribute
  them
- it has an advertising clause that seems similar to the advertising clause
  in the original BSD 4-clause licence. As far as I understood that makes it
  incompatible with GPL.
Hence, it really would be better if we could use the library from GNU
instead.

Cheers -Ralf.
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Ralf Treinen
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