Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 11:29:11 -0400 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FYI: RSA Donated to the public domain Message-ID: <39B662C7.80E69F1@vangelderen.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009061003250.50724-100000@achilles.silby.com>
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Mike Silbersack wrote:
>
> 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 just pointed out that the press release (from which I quoted)
doesn't state that use/selling of RSA is allowed now. It seems
that the FAQ allows for use and sale. Which document prevails
is up in lawyer land...
> I think you're confusing use of RSA and use of
> RSAREF/BSAFE,
Nope, the press release explicitly (see quote above) talks
about the patent (which covers the algorithm, not RSAREF)
and I was pointing out just that.
> which they're still maintaining control over (as Warner
> said.)
Which is not an issue as we don't need RSAREF, not even
an international version of RSAREF :-)
> 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.
You may very well be right but in case you are not, it would
be rather nasty if we got harassed, right? RSADSI has not
been nice about their IP in the past couple of years and I
have no reason to believe they will be now.
Cheers,
Jeroen
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