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