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Patent restrictions on Crypto++ lib?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (P. J. Ponder)
Tue Jan 12 20:34:29 1999
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:52:16 -0500 (EST)
From: "P. J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us>
Reply-To: "P. J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Wei Dai's recently announced crypto library has some notes in it about
licenses and mentions in the documentation that there may be patent
restrictions on some of the code included in the distribution. I figure
the RSA stuff is covered by a patent (due to expire in a year or two?) and
I know that IDEA is covered by a European patent and is only free for
personal use, not for commercial use. Other than those, does anyone know
what other restrictions there may be on the software for US developers?
the software is at:
http://cryptography.org/cgi-bin/crypto.cgi/libraries/crypto30.zip
If anyone has looked into this, please let me know what you've found.
Thanks.
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On an unrelated matter:
Great job Vin McLellan on your recent posting about Australia & RSA, &c.
