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bug #34424: Asterisk: SHA-1 implementation doesn't allow modification

Submitter:  Sam Geeraerts <samgee>
Submitted:  Wed 28 Sep 2011 08:36:34 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  gNewSense 2 Severity:  5 - Blocker
Item Group:  All architectures Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  samgee
Open/Closed:  Closed
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Wed 28 Sep 2011 08:39:24 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Blacklisted in rev. 478.

Sam Geeraerts <samgee>
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Wed 28 Sep 2011 08:36:34 PM UTC, original submission:  

File main/sha1.c has this license notice:

  •  This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to
  •  others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it
  •  or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published
  •  and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any
  •  kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
  •  included on all such copies and derivative works.  However, this
  •  document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing
  •  the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other
  •  Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of
  •  developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for
  •  copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be
  •  followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than
  •  English.


To my understanding that means you can extend, but not modify the text/code in this file. This makes it non-free.

It looks like this code was copied straight from RFC 3174. I found a discussion [2] on debian-legal from a few years back that says that RFC texts are non-free (except for the first 1000 or so). A summary about copyright on RFC Editor [3] says that derivative works are allowed, but doesn't go into detail.

[1] http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3174.txt
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/04/msg00223.html
[3] http://www.rfc-editor.org/copyright.17Feb04.html

Sam Geeraerts <samgee>
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