>>>>> On Mon, 20 Sep 2021, Robin H Johnson wrote:

> RedHat's legal team clearly know something there that they aren't
> disclosing the details of publicly, because the patches said the
> patents expire in 2020, but when I asked off-list if EC could be
> re-enabled based on the expiry dates in the files, they claimed that
> patent issues were still present, without giving any detail.

If there are remaining patent issues then they should be able to support
their claim by facts, like a patent number. Why would this be difficult,
or what reason would they have not to disclose it?

> [1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/openssl/c/347681c6b246d9b6a08c73bb40e5eefaf8596d71?branch=rawhide
> [2] https://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-legal/msg03673.html