On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Eric Norman wrote:
>
>
> > The relevant patent is the one on the RSA cryptography algorithm.
> > It expires in September 2000. It is in the US only. Outside the US,
> > the algorithm is not patented.
>
> Just make sure you understand what you can and cannot do in a few
> months when the RSA patent expires.
>
> This may or may not mean that you can use the code in SSLeay or Openssl
> that implements the RSA algorithm. The copyright for that code
> belongs to Eric Young.
>
According to the OpenSSL and SSLeay licences, which is what OpenSSL is
released under, OpenSSL can be used for personal, public, and commercial
projects and products as long as certain copyright notices are made in the
products' documentation, and credit is given where credit is due.
It is much less restrictive than the GNU license, but the copyright is
still owned by Eric Young and/or Tim Hudson for the SSLeay portions.
'Permission' for commercial products is only required for use of the
phrase 'OpenSSL'.
In a nutshell, this means that you definately CAN use this code.
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