Hello,

On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 5:32 PM, Carsten Leonhardt <l...@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Kern,
>
> would you consider the following patch that replaces the SHA1 function
> with another one by Steve Reid that's undoubtedly free?
> (c.f. http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1869)


Nice, Fedora and Red Hat as well patch out the sha1.c source file for this
very same reason.

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/bacula/blob/master/f/bacula-9.0.0-non-free-code.patch

The proposed replacement is used in many open source projects, as can be
>
verified at https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=Steve+Reid
>
> In essence, it just changes the sole occurence of "SHA1Context" to
> "SHA1_CTX" in src/lib/crypto.c and replaces src/lib/sha1.[ch] with those
> found in libsolve (https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv/tree/master/src).
>
> I'll run tests with the patch if there's a chance that it could be
> adopted.


Could you open a bug on Mantis? (http://bugs.bacula.org/)

Thanks & regards,
--Simone


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