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RE: The SSL license offer.

2004-09-02 09:27:05

[Hallam-Baker, Phillip]
The patent is held by Netscape (AOL) and covers transport layer 
security. The terms are considerably more vague than in the SenderID
case. Netscape does not promise to offer a sublicensable patent or
even to offer reasonable or non discriminatory terms.

Very interesting. If OpenSSL can be included in Linux distributions, why
can't SenderID? 

The SSL license would seem to have tproblems with the GPL similar to
those that the SenderID license does.

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Ryan


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