From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Red Hat/1.0.4-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: The source RPM of krb5 (at least on version 1.2.7) contains six (06) files with an unclear (possibly questionable) licensing: 1. src/lib/crypto/des/f_cbc.c 2. src/lib/crypto/des/f_cksum.c 3. src/lib/crypto/des/f_sched.c 4. src/lib/crypto/des/f_tables.c 5. src/lib/crypto/des/f_tables.h 6. src/lib/des425/pcbc_encrypt.c Copyright (c) 1990 Dennis Ferguson. All rights reserved. Commercial use is permitted only if products which are derived from or include this software are made available for purchase and/or use in Canada. Otherwise, redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted. This may be a concern for some OEM vendors shipping Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Checked on 1.2.7-28 (should apply to all versions) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (possibly other releases) 1. up2date --get-source up2date --get-source krb5-libs 2. rpm -Uvh /var/spool/up2date/krb5-1.2.7-28.src.rpm 3. cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ 4. rpmbuild -bp krb5.spec 5. cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/krb5-1.2.7/ 6. View src/lib/crypto/des/f_cksum.c, src/lib/crypto/des/f_sched.c, src/lib/crypto/des/f_tables.c, src/lib/crypto/des/f_tables.h and src/lib/des425/pcbc_encrypt.c Actual Results: An unclear (possibly legally questionable) usage and distribution license. Expected Results: A clearer licensing (GPL?) for usage and distribution. Additional info:
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