Ross,
On 27-Apr-99 Ross Foard wrote:
> Olga,
>
> Did you get any responses to this question? Because of the unclear (to me)
> nature of the RSA licensing I am using an evaluation of Covalent Raven while
> try
> to understand the licensing issues. In the past I have always used Netscape
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It seems to me that while using Raven you still need a license and this could
mean buying (and using???) BSAFE.
> Products for our secure server needs, but the customer requested apache. The
> mod_ssl installation instructions state that I should download the package
> RSAref
> (RAS Reference Implementation) to comply with patent legalities, but that is
> not
> available now.
>
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According to the recent discussion in openssl-user mailing list RSARef is not
legal for the use in the commercial applications (even if it would be
available).
> I am suprised that no one has responded to your post. Let me know if you
> learn
> anything new in this regard.
There are some responces you should have them by now. The time for message to
get to a mailing list is for some reason too long (about a day for me to see my
message in there - I am in US), much longer than in other mailing lists to which
I am subscribed.
My understanding now is that for use in commercial application BSAFE (or
RSA Data Security license?) should be bought and that there is no alternative
and because of it the prices are very high.
Olga.
>
> Ross Foard
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>
> olga wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using an openssl in the commercial product. As we should get license
>> for
>> using RSA we were talking with RSA about the terms of licensing. 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?
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>>
>> Olga Antropova.
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