From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 6 8: 7:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from silby.com (cb34181-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.14.173.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4474A37B424 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 08:07:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 50755 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Sep 2000 15:07:35 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Sep 2000 15:07:35 -0000 Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:07:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" Cc: Warner Losh , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain In-Reply-To: <39B658C0.CD9A2E37@vangelderen.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > [1] The press release talk about RSADSI "waiving its > rights to enforce the RSA patent for any development > activities" > > This is very cunning as the patent never actually > covered development. Instead it covers usage and > sales of products incorporating RSA, both of which > are not explicitly allowed for in the press release. > Better be careful, better get written approval! All of the pages they've put up on their website seems to disagree with what you've just said. I think you're confusing use of RSA and use of RSAREF/BSAFE, which they're still maintaining control over (as Warner said.) Somehow I rather doubt they're trying to trick people into using RSA for the next week, and then going on a mass lawsuit spree. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message