Re: License issues with md5deep

2007-08-20 Thread Ben Finney
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anything in the public domain can, merely by redistributing with > > some trivial amount of creative work, gain a new copyright holder. > > To be clear: that new copyright holder only holds copyright over their > creat

Re: License issues with md5deep

2007-08-20 Thread MJ Ray
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giovanni Mascellani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > Anyway, some files are different headings. md5.c reports: > > /* > > * This code implements the MD5 message-digest algorithm. > > * The algorithm was written by Ron Rivest. This code was > > * writ

Re: License issues with md5deep

2007-08-19 Thread Ben Finney
Giovanni Mascellani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In most (all those I won't discuss in this email) of the sources file > there is a notice like this: > /* MD5DEEP - algorithms.h > * > * By Jesse Kornblum > * > * This is a work of the US Government. In accordance with 17 USC 105, > * copyrigh

License issues with md5deep

2007-08-19 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
Hi all! These days I am trying to package md5deep for Debian[1]. Although it is my first compiled package (the other was in Python), I'm not having any technical problem. I have just a bunch of question for you about the license. I wrote to debian-mentors, but they suggested me to write here to be