From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 13 8:11:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kci.kciLink.com (kci.kciLink.com [204.117.82.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C4D637B83E for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 08:11:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from khera@kciLink.com) Received: by kci.kciLink.com (Postfix, from userid 100) id 28278E881; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:11:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Vivek Khera MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14742.47798.52296.996887@kci.kciLink.com> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:11:50 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RSAref and Sept 20 In-Reply-To: <200008121909031.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu> References: <200008121909031.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "RW" == Rich Wales writes: RW> Regarding September 20 (the expiration date for the RSA patent), does RW> anyone know (with reasonable certainty) whether this date is the =last= RW> date on which the patent =is= valid, or the =first= date on which it is RW> =not= valid? Someone on one of the linux sites, Linux Weekly News (http://lwn.net/) asked a lawyer this question and got back a "case law not clear on this" repsonse. Safest is to wait the extra day, it seems. It was posted to the "feedback" page on that site within the last couple of weeks. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-545-6996 GPG & MIME spoken here http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message