Bug#730754: include/liblas/detail/sha1.hpp is non-free
Howard Butler
hobu.inc at gmail.com
Mon Dec 23 19:51:42 UTC 2013
This header wasn't used at all, and I have removed it from the tree.
https://github.com/libLAS/libLAS/commit/ff7cb669bea35b6129b2ef634c47a4daf9d6951d
Sorry it took so long to get on this,
Howard
On Dec 5, 2013, at 5:30 PM, Francesco P. Lovergine <frankie at debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 09:37:52AM +0100, Luca Falavigna wrote:
>> Source: liblas
>> Version: 1.2.1-5.1
>> Severity: serious
>>
>>
>> include/liblas/detail/sha1.hpp is licensed under these terms:
>> // sha1.h
>> //
>> // Copyright (C) 1998
>> // Paul E. Jones <paulej at arid.us>
>> // All Rights Reserved.
>> //
>> // This software is licensed as "freeware." Permission to distribute
>> // this software in source and binary forms is hereby granted without
>> // a fee. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESSED
>> // OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
>> // WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>> // THE AUTHOR SHALL NOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES RESULTING
>> // FROM THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, INCLUDING,
>> // BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE.
>>
>> Thus, this portion of code is non-free.
>>
>
> This issue still appears in the 1.7 (latest) version. A proper way to fix this
> is adopting/adapting a license-compatible implementation such as:
> http://tamale.net/sha1
> It is not complicated at all and I could provide a patch if Howard had not
> time to fix this issue upstream.
>
> --
> Francesco P. Lovergine
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