On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 12:11:54AM +0100, Niels M�ller wrote:
> Hmm. Speaking of RSA... perhaps OpenSSH is totally off-limits for
> patent reasons? The RSA patent doesn't expire until September 20
> (IIRC). LSH and SSH2 doesn't have this problem, as they use DH and DSA
> instead.
That would be a problem for gnu.org if purists like RMS don't want to run
any non-free software, but it is not a problem for non-purists because
almost all U.S. & Canadian users of ssh1 can legally use RSAREF2 without
charge, and the RSA patent doesn't cover people outside of the U.S. or
Canada.
- Dave Dykstra
