Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 01-Nov-2007, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Over on the IETF discussion list, I've been asked to "present >> > evidence" about the patent-encumbered status of the technology in >> > 'draft-housley-tls-authz-extns'. > >> As far as I know, there is only a patent application at this time, >> but it is likely to be published as a patent eventually. > > Thanks. Can you point us to information about the specific patent > application? It is mentioned in the IETF IPR notification: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/912/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/ipr_detail_show.cgi?ipr_id=833 It seems down now though... searching for the patent number given in that notification should work. >> The author's company was founded in 2005. I'm not sure what "patent >> enforcement" means in practice. In any case, I'm not aware of any >> lawsuits from them, but I haven't looked. They have been trying to >> get GnuTLS to sign their patent license though. > > I don't suppose any of this is online where I can point others to it? Some of it is available on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, but I think the specific requests were in private emails. The license is available directly from them: http://redphonesecurity.com/license.htm http://redphonesecurity.com/RedPhoneSecurity_GeneralUseLicense_TLSAuthorizations_2007-06-18.pdf Since I wouldn't be able to sign anything on behalf of GnuTLS or the FSF anyway, I asked them to talk to the FSF instead. /Simon _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
