legal January 2012

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IDEA patent expiration?
by Orcan Ogetbil 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

Hi all, We explicitly exclude the "International Data Encryption Algorithm" (IDEA) in a few Fedora packages (bouncycastle, opengpg, ?) due to its patent issues. Recently it occurred to me that this patent [1] may actually have been expired by now. There is some debate in the wikipedia's discussion page about this topic [2]. From what I understand, the general perception is that the US patent expired in May 2011. Could you please check this? When is it possible to have the IDEA in Fedora? Thanks, Orcan [1] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2F… [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Data_Encryption_Algorithm

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by Cvetomir Georg 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

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Legal opinion on license for EQP
by John C. Peterson 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

Hello, I am in the process of packaging an application known as EQP. There are a couple of quirks related to the license and it was suggested that I query the fedora-legal-list here for opinions. The website where the software is distributed makes the following statement: "But it has obtained several interesting results, and we have decided to make it available (including the source code) to everyone, with no restrictions (and of course no warranty)." The page itself is here: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~mccune/eqp/ Unfortunately, the source code tarball itself contains nothing to clarify further the copyright, license terms. Obviously, the path of least resistance would be to contact the author for clarification. The other problem is that the author passed away back in May 2011, so contacting him is not an option. I don't know for certain, but I would suspect that whoever funded the author's research is possibly the ultimate owner of the copyright, so further clarification is not an automatic dead end. Maybe rpmfusion is a better home for this? Regards, John -- John C. Peterson, KD6EKQ mailto:jcp@eskimo.com San Diego, CA U.S.A

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