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Date:      Wed, 27 Nov 1996 13:52:37 -0500 ()
From:      Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>
To:        John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Stupid question no 10101
Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.3.95.961126132843.-466169R-100000@swoosh.dunn.org>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19961126122009.jc@irbs.com>

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On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, John Capo wrote:

> Quoting Bradley Dunn (bradley@dunn.org):
> > 
> > Careful there. If you are in the US or Canada and you are using ssh in a
> > commercial application, you must either have a license with RSA or buy a
> > product that does.
> > (such as F-secure http://www.datafellows.com/f-secure/)
> > 
> 
> Not according to the way I read the license.  From the end of
> paragraph 2 of the rsraef2/doc/license.txt:
> 
>       Nothing in this paragraph prohibits you from using the
>       Program or any Application Program solely for internal
>       purposes on the premises of a business which is engaged in
>       revenue-generating activities.
> 
> You can't sell it, or derive revenue from it, but you can use it.

I guess it depends on how you define "solely for internal purposes". From
"WHAT YOU CAN (AND CANNOT) DO WITH RSAREF":

RSAREF, RSAREF applications, and services based on
RSAREF applications may not be sold.

How do you define services based on RSA? I would ask a lawyer, since a 
part of providing Internet services includes providing access to
computers. If you use RSA to administer those computers is the service
based on RSA? Maybe, maybe not.

-BD




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