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Re: Re: On Porting OpenSSL v1.0.0c
- From: Sergei Gavrikov <sergei dot gavrikov at gmail dot com>
- To: Ross Younger <ecos at impropriety dot org dot uk>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:51:10 +0200 (EET)
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: On Porting OpenSSL v1.0.0c
- References: <AANLkTi=3hSnicTZ77Ci3Nfw9BEMYYv3Cg4Ub_kpA12QD@mail.gmail.com> <C4E8D0478C3D194FA02B65678CBB6C6087A78E6E66@DEFTHW99EC5MSX.ww902.siemens.net> <4D073A3D.9040706@dallaway.org.uk> <20101214110436.GA22813@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Ross Younger wrote:
> * John Dallaway <john@dallaway.org.uk> wrote:
...
> > Does anyone have up-to-date information (with reference) on the
> > restrictions for hosting this class of cryptographic source code on a
> > publically-accessible server located in the United States?
>
> The Debian project researched the situation a few years ago - with legal
> assistance - and consequently decided to integrate crypto with their
> main distribution, jump through a few hoops to notify the US government
> about it, and stop maintaining their non-US crypto download site.
> http://www.debian.org/legal/cryptoinmain has information.
They rock! And what's about RedHat (our nearest public hop :-)? I found
answer here http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#BUILD8
It was interested to know that expiry dates for patents exist! (IANAL,
but, on my look today RC5 is issue only).
Sergei
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