OpenSSL and ECC patents (was Re: Mesa in F37- vaapi support disabled for h264/h265/vc1)

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2022-09-28 at 08:11 +0200, Julian Sikorski wrote:
> Recently, I experienced that the German AusweisApp, which already 
> required entering the ID card PIN on the phone [1], has stopped working 
> altogether [2]. This is due to hobbled openssl Fedora ships. There is no 
> openssl-freeworld in RPM Fusion, probably because it would need to be 
> rebuilt entirely.

On this topic, have our legal advisors re-evaluated the ECC patent
situation lately? The last patent listed in
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/openssl//blob/rawhide/f/hobble-openssl
supposedly expired in 2020, yet we're still doing a lot of patching of
ECC stuff in the spec. Are there other patents not listed there which
we're still worried about?