[Fedora-legal-list] IDEA patent expiration?

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Tom Callaway wrote:
> On 10/19/2011 07:52 PM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>>> 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,
>>
>> Hi,
>> I was wondering if somebody had a chance to investigate this problem
>> but then forgot to reply to the thread due to the time spent on
>> celebrations of finding the solution.
>
> This issue is under review.
>

Hi, is there any update? We now passed the most conservative possible
expiration date listed in wikipedia (2012-01-07). Can we consider this
safe now?

Thanks,
Orcan