Greg Broiles wrote: > At 02:47 PM 9/21/2002 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> >Some of the OpenSSL developers are on this list. In case they are too >> busy to >> >reply, below are some of the comments from the package: >> >> Could someone with legal know-how translate whatever it is this is >> saying into >> English? > > > Sun is promising not to sue people for patent infringement for using > Sun's code as provided > in the OpenSSL library, provided that the people who don't want to be > sued comply with > a list of conditions: > > (1) they promise not to sue Sun for infringing any of their own patents > which might > cover the use of the donated code > > (2) don't modify Sun's code as provided by Sun, don't use only parts of > the donated code, > and don't remove the license text from the code.
Note that if you don't want to be bound by Sun's licence, there's a flag to remove all their donated code (at least, there's supposed to be, I haven't checked). Cheers, Ben,. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]