From: Bill Rebey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Bill.Rebey> "We own EAY, thus we own SSLeay/OpenSSL"
This is of course pure and simple bullshit. SSLeay was distributed
under a "free" license, and there's no way it can be taken away
retroactively from the versions that came out (anything until version
0.9.1b, I believe. At least, I know of no later version of SSLeay,
and I think that version wasn't even released by EAY any more).
OpenSSL has taken it from version 0.9.1c or something like that.
RSA Security Inc. own EAY, that's perfectly correct, and under their
wing he has worked on BSAFE SSL-C, which is the continued work on
SSLeay, and has thusly been done in parallell with OpenSSL. RSA
thusly own SSL-C.
Now, since OpenSSL is derived from the free SSLeay, just as SSL-C
does, it is not the derivation of SSL-C and can therefore not be owned
by RSA Security Inc. in any way. That's the reason the statement
cited above is bullshit.
However, as has already been pointed out, they still have a valid
patent on the RSA algorithm, and they obviously take an outrageous
amount of money to license that, especially, as I understand it, if
the implementation used is not their own. Bait, hook, line, all is
there to tie the customer, basically...
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