On Jul 29, 2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No, RSAREF couldn't have been modified. It had restricted > distribution and everyone had to get their own copy. http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.misc.discuss/browse_thread/thread/ecc4d4ff360019e/b3dbb6f89144b706?lnk=st&q=gnu.misc.discuss+ripem#b3dbb6f89144b706 http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/crypt/cryptography/rpem/ripem/ http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/crypt/cryptography/rpem/ripem/README http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/crypt/cryptography/rpem/ripem/rsaref/ There is indeed a lot of conflicting information out there, and the files above are older than the discussion, but the point stands that some piece of software could only be distributed under the GPL, and by people who had accepted a patent license that prevented them from doing just that, regardless of any copyright license incompatibilities. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
