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Re: Question on MIT Kerberos Library licensing

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Thu Jun 7 15:07:35 2018

From: Derek Atkins <warlord@mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 10:22:56 -0400
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Hi,

Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu> writes:

> I cannot speak for OpenVision, and I do not know for sure what happened
> to that business entity or its IP portfolio.  The work covered by that
> license was contributed in the early 1990s and is fairly extensive (it
> includes the krb5 GSS mech and the kadmin subsystem).

Does OpenVision still exist?  Thought they joined with @Stake and then,
I'm not sure what happened, and definitely don't know what happened to
their IP Portfolio.  I know that Marc Horowitz and I worked one some of
this IP.

Personally, I would not worry about it.

-derek
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