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. ~tom == Fedora Project _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
