Subject: Re: quickly find what applications are affected by RSA
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/08/2000 08:53:54
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 02:09:44PM +0900, itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
>
> > netbsd have been shipping openssl pkgsrc, which include RSA. why
> > netbsd pkgsrc is not considered a contributory patent infringement and
> > openbsd (RSA-only) binary package is?
>
> Well, the NetBSD pkgsrc is not providing a binary package, and we require
> that the sources be fetched from the master site, at least... that's
> certainly different than shipping a binary package.
Just to belabour the obvious: No one objects to NetBSD pkgsrc
mirroring source and providing binaries for openssl henceforth,
now that the patent has been waived, correct?