Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:50:43 -0500 From: Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Graeme@echidna.com Subject: RSA license for SSL for Apache Message-ID: <36A4A9D3.3CA9@echidna.com>
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I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this, but questions seems to have the biggest audience. A friend just saw a Red Hat Linux 5.2 package, which was labelled as including "Apache US SSL secure server" with a "single-server advanced cryptography license from RSA". I assume this means a license for commercial use. This certainly gives a powerful incentive to use Red Hat for a web server. I wonder if Walnut Creek CD-ROM could offer a similar distribution of FreeBSD? The problem for US users is that RSA do not have a licensing model suited to individual commercial use. From what RSA told me last year, it would take a company with significant sales to strike up a licensing agreement with them. The licensing cost per package is probably small - the problem is RSA require a large "down payment" on account, from which the per-product fees are then taken. When you look at the price of the Stronghold Apache/SSL package ($1000), I'm sure you could charge quite a few dollars extra for a distribution of FreeBSD including the RSA license. -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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