Sun donates elliptic curve code to OpenSSL?

[Ben Laurie]

Greg Broiles wrote:
> 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.

Note that if you don't want to be bound by Sun's licence, there's a flag 
to remove all their donated code (at least, there's supposed to be, I 
haven't checked).

Cheers,

Ben,.

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