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. Thanks, Orcan _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
