I believe that he did read this stuff. From the initial posting in
this thread it appears that the RSA sales force is now claiming that
because Eric A. Young is now an employee of RSA and because the SSLeay
source code was used as the foundation for a commercial RSA product
that RSA is now claiming that they own SSLeay and all products derived
from it. Hence, they claim that they own OpenSSL and use of OpenSSL
requires payments to RSA.
> In the README file there is a section marked PATENTS.
> The only thing that really needs to be added, is that the patent on
> the RSA algorithm expires on Sept 20, 2000, but then *everybody*
> knows that. :)
>
> Tell your boss that OpenSSL has some patented intellectual property
> and you need some time with a lawyer to understand the issues.
> Take the README, the note about the patent expiration, and give
> it to said lawyer to look at. While s/he is doing so, you
> should read the INSTALL file and figure out how to remove rc5
> and idea.
>
> I mean, sheesh, you did read these things before bleating for help on
> a world-wide mailing list, didn't you?
> /r$
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