Sun donates elliptic curve code to OpenSSL?

Greg Broiles gbroiles at parrhesia.com
Sun Sep 22 12:14:10 EDT 2002


At 02:47 PM 9/21/2002 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:

>rsedc at atlantic.gse.rmit.edu.au writes:
>
> >Some of the OpenSSL developers are on this list. In case they are too 
> busy to
> >reply, below are some of the comments from the package:
>
>Could someone with legal know-how translate whatever it is this is saying into
>English?

Sun is promising not to sue people for patent infringement for using Sun's 
code as provided
in the OpenSSL library, provided that the people who don't want to be sued 
comply with
a list of conditions:

(1) they promise not to sue Sun for infringing any of their own patents 
which might
cover the use of the donated code

(2) don't modify Sun's code as provided by Sun, don't use only parts of the 
donated code,
and don't remove the license text from the code.


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