From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 9:41:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ra.nks.net (ra.nks.net [208.226.218.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5618C37B7F8 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:41:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joeo@cracktown.com) Received: from localhost (joeo@localhost) by ra.nks.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA11614; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:41:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:41:11 -0400 (EDT) From: joeo@cracktown.com X-Sender: joeo@ra.nks.net To: Forrest Aldrich Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RSA patent expires In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000810115054.00c9bbf0@64.20.73.233> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm have no expertise on Intelectual Property Law in the US... With that disclaimer; You'll no longer need to license the RSA public key stuff for proprietary apps or use the rsaref library for freeware/research in the US. RSA Inc. will still hold patents on some applications/methods of use of public key cryptography, stuff they developed and patented years after RSA was patented. Whether these have impact on anything that is currently shipped with FreeBSD is another story. On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > When RSA's patent expires (this fall, I understand), will this > effectively remove the requirement for the RSAREF package (and all the > hassles with it) for FreeBSD? > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message