Re: Licensing problem for Fedora



On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 17:03 -0400, Todd Kulesza wrote:
> Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 12:34 -0400, Todd Kulesza wrote:
> >> Absolutely, if you can prepare a patch, I'll get it committed as soon as 
> >> possible.
> > 
> > The attached patch is against the Fedora snapshot of CVS from
> > 2006-05-27.  I am not a hardcore C guy, so it would behoove you to check
> > my work carefully. :-)  If I did something wrong, please don't hesitate
> > to let me know, so I can learn from the error.
> > 
> > In short, I did the following:
> > * File removals:
> > - src/md5.c
> > - src/md5.h
> > * src/utils.c:
> > - fixed header include
> > - fixed md5_hash() function to use beecrypt MD5 library (LGPLv2.1+)
> > * src/Makefile.am:
> > - removed md5.{c,h}
> > * configure.ac:
> > - Added check for beecrypt/md5.h header
> > - Added check for beecrypt lib
> > 
> Cool!  I'm currently in the process of moving to the west coast, so I 
> don't actually have a machine capable of testing this.  I do have a 
> Debian server to build it on and apply it from, but if someone else 
> could test it out and let me know if there are any problems, I'll try to 
> get it committed as soon as I can.

Yeah, it works here but testing would be appreciated.  I have only a few
more days to get this into Fedora before we freeze, at which point this
either has to be license-fixed, or removed.  Thanks to anyone who can
help out.

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