At 12:37 PM 4/28/99 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote:
>I've been trying to figure out what the exact definition of "commercial" means
>for IDEA.
>
>>From the information included with SSH, it seems that "commercial" means
>a corporate entity using IDEA to interact with another company or with
>clients. There is no information about using IDEA within a single company
>though.
You will want to be very careful extrapolating any interpretation of
"commercial" or "non-commercial" as used in SSH v.1, or the SSH v.2 to
other environments or other licenses.
>Can someone clarify this for me (or otherwise point me somewhere which
>might clarify this point?)
Sure. See: <http://www.ascom.com/infosec/idea.html>
Also,
from: <http://www.ascom.com/infosec/idea/policy.html>
/quote/
4. 'Commercial Purposes' shall mean any revenue generating purpose
including but not limited to:
i) using the algorithm for company internal purposes (subject to a site
license)
ii) incorporating an application software containing the algorithm into any
hardware and/or software and distributing such hardware and/or
software and/or providing services related thereto to others (subject to
a product license).
iii) using a product containing an application software that uses the
algorithm not covered by an IDEA™ license (subject to an end-user license).
/unquote/
Suerte,
_Vin
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