On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Salz, Rich <rsalz at akamai.com> wrote: > > The existence of the NSA agreement is a partial answer to the first > question, > > though it seems unclear if this license is recursively sublicensed > through 3rd > > parties or not. > > They knew they were licensing an open source toolkit. > So, it looks as though the only way for any one of us to be able to have a patent license under the NSA's license to OpenSSL Software Foundation is to get a separate license from you that doesn't allow us to redistribute or resell it. (I'm not a lawyer, but it appears to be the only way that we would be able to qualify under the "End User" definition 1A, as referenced in the grant under section 2.) Is such a license available? Could such a license be granted severally to the same people who also receive the standard BSD license, such that each individual actually receives two separate licenses for the same code (i.e., one granted with extremely limited rights solely for the purpose of qualifying to receive the NSA ECC patent license, the other being separately granted to permit redistribution and resale of integrated components but not granting any ECC license transitively)? If such a severed license were possible, I would think that such would require that the recipient of the first (limited) license obtain the code directly from openssl.org. -Kyle H -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-users/attachments/20160901/e931b2dc/attachment.html>
