Bug#728419: Licensing concerns regarding liveMedia/our_md5.c

[Reinhard Tartler]

Hi,

thanks for providing liblivemedia under a free software license. I'm a
member of the Debian multimedia packaging team, which takes care for
the liblivemedia package.

The Debian ftpmasters have recently reported a concern regarding the
licensing of one of the included files, namely liveMedia/our_md5.c
(the same applies to the header file). Please see the details of the
report here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=728419

The problem here is that while it has a very liberal intent, this
"RSA" license adds additional (advertising) clauses that make it
unsuited for use in a LGPL licensed library such as liblivemedia.

My current understanding is Debian as third party redistributor may
not have the right to ship this package as part of the Debian
distribution. I would therefore very much appreciate if you could
comment on this issue. Specifically, it would be important for us to
know how you, the original authors, would like to proceed with this.

In your replies, please copy 728419 at bugs.debian.org to have the
correspondence archived in the public Debian bug tracking system.

Thank you very much for your assistance.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard