Does anyone know the nature of the patents? When will they expire?
"Salz, Rich" wrote:
> > The RSA person
> > I was talking to says that they can not sell the license for RSA usage
> > with an OpenSSL and that we have to buy their BSAFE product. Does it mean
> that
> > BSAFE was bought (and used???) for all existing commercial products that
> use
> > OpenSSL instead of just buying a license for RSA usage? It sounds pretty
> > unbelievable to me... Are there any examples to support or disprove this?
>
> Why is it unbelievable? Unless you are a very big company, the only way you
> can get an RSA license is to get a license to use their implementation of
> the
> patent. Once you get BSAFE, you can modify it as you wish; even to the point
> of
> replacing their implementation with another one (such as OpenSSL).
>
> Tell RSA that you want to license BSAFE for incorporation into a product and
> then
> negotiate the licensing fee. You can tell them it's for use in a Web server
> if
> you want to.
> /r$
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