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Re: Sun donates elliptic curve code to OpenSSL?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Mon Sep 23 10:28:13 2002
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:50:20 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@parrhesia.com>
Cc: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Greg Broiles wrote:
> At 02:47 PM 9/21/2002 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>
>> rsedc@atlantic.gse.rmit.edu.au writes:
>>
>> >Some of the OpenSSL developers are on this list. In case they are too
>> busy to
>> >reply, below are some of the comments from the package:
>>
>> Could someone with legal know-how translate whatever it is this is
>> saying into
>> English?
>
>
> Sun is promising not to sue people for patent infringement for using
> Sun's code as provided
> in the OpenSSL library, provided that the people who don't want to be
> sued comply with
> a list of conditions:
>
> (1) they promise not to sue Sun for infringing any of their own patents
> which might
> cover the use of the donated code
>
> (2) don't modify Sun's code as provided by Sun, don't use only parts of
> the donated code,
> and don't remove the license text from the code.
Note that if you don't want to be bound by Sun's licence, there's a flag
to remove all their donated code (at least, there's supposed to be, I
haven't checked).
Cheers,
Ben,.
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