Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems from what I have heard that we consider IDEA and RSA to be > non-free due to the patents on them in various countries and this is > why we have the gpg-rsa and gpg-idea modules in non-free. However we > also have libssl, openssl, cipe and ssleay in main which all > implement the IDEA (and RSA?) algorithms.
This is simply because at the time I split the non-US archive up I didn't know if they used IDEA for sure, so I left them. I then never had time to go back before Guy finished up, though I do plan to later. -- James
