From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 612E9158011 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 18:41:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FA21E0975; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 18:41:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4A42AE0931 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2021 18:41:31 +0000 (UTC) From: Ulrich Mueller To: "Robin H. Johnson" Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, licenses@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Guidance on distributed patented software In-Reply-To: (Robin H. Johnson's message of "Mon, 20 Sep 2021 18:15:45 +0000") References: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 20:41:21 +0200 Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 4df690aa-3255-4b39-97af-3f64cff53b9b X-Archives-Hash: b47fa0f0e06572ca09ab7f8c2a7e2fbb --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain >>>>> 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 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQFDBAEBCAAtFiEEtDnZ1O9xIP68rzDbUYgzUIhBXi4FAmFI1dEPHHVsbUBnZW50 b28ub3JnAAoJEFGIM1CIQV4uuWQIAIDgxZXmLTJGGJNEayUtw1l7L1tlka3Z0+kP thziBdqtprn511W2xKCrnzwT2L/K1A5WgQjGHlsYsCkckilqyO/aNWXQXlHJlAOq KSn9MMaqRwlqjmj20OdY+aZZUvwg/qTbAe2a7qLyRjqiO06O8479Ee9lZWlt9At9 WpaRu6voXJVFSTpm+vHqCN+jXSjXT4izilAoyD+QbYLNK6atf9s59sSi/tXfIlhL Gbo9kK1Yib356p5PoZxksHDdWmCXqhg6v5JtJwFP4pn4Oilx4DO6oItfw1XlYkzP cNhJ0b9SBBtRTnCg9it3np5TdqLbBGoNAnRjPX1a8Ej6vrYzOpM= =A0CB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--