From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 11 12:11:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com (c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com [24.176.204.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B834437B401 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:11:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9BJBlL71323; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:11:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200110111911.f9BJBlL71323@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Jeffrey J. Libman" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: openSSL and RSA and licensing requirements In-Reply-To: References: Comments: In-reply-to "Jeffrey J. Libman" message dated "Thu, 11 Oct 2001 13:57:26 -0500." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1560524555P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:11:47 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_Exmh_-1560524555P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, "Jeffrey J. Libman" wrote: > i have read that the openSSL with rsaref is only for non commercial > use in the USA and that a license must be obtained to run SSL here. I think some of this sentence is a little confused, but no matter... > i > also have read that the license expires in september of 2000, and that > after that point the full RSA code was supposed to be added back into the > freeBSD distribution. > > is this true and has this been done? The RSA *patent* expired in September 2000, so that non-RSAREF implementations could be distributed within the US. This was the reason behind FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE. (FYI: You can find this information in the release notes. It also turns up if you search for "rsaref" on the FreeBSD Web site.) Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1560524555P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1+ 05/14/2001 iD8DBQE7xe7z2MoxcVugUsMRAkR/AJ4wx57W6e+SbQrmWKqttJnG3zNqqwCg/Plo QGG1P+g1yQHiMuN9kJciV60= =5OrI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1560524555P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message