[Python-Dev] license issues with profiler.py and md5.h/md5c.c

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Fri Feb 11 05:13:55 CET 2005


On Feb 10, 2005, at 9:50 PM, Donovan Baarda wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 21:30 -0500, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> On Feb 10, 2005, at 9:15 PM, Donovan Baarda wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 11:52 -0800, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
> [...]
>> One possible alternative would be to bring in something like PyOpenSSL
>> <http://pyopenssl.sourceforge.net/> and just rewrite the md5 (and 
>> sha?)
>> extensions as Python modules that use that API.
>
> Only problem with this, is pyopenssl doesn't yet include any mdX or sha
> modules.

My bad, how about M2Crypto <http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps/m2/> 
then?  This one supports message digests and is more license compatible 
with Python to boot.

-bob



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