Re: Reminder notice about FreeBSD Security Advisories

From: Jeroen C. van Gelderen (jeroen@vangelderen.org)
Date: 02/10/01 

Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 13:25:50 -0400
From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>
To: Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com>

Roelof Osinga wrote:
>
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >
> > ...
> > And Europe, I believe.
>
> Nope. That's why I asked :). It was brought to the table as a proposal
> in order to make those laws more akin in the world. At least partly,
> since I believe there was no mention of business method patentability,
> just the patentability of software AKA mathematics.
>
> Fortunately the proposal didn't make the ballots. So, for the moment
> at least, software patents do not apply in the EU. Don't know about
> Japan.

The above is not correct. The IDEA algorithm is patented in
Europe as #0482154. Noncommercial use is free, commercial
use requires a paid license. This has been the case ever
since PGP 2.x.x was released and will be the case until the
year 2011. Fortunately there is no reason whatsoever to use
IDEA these days, except for legacy purposes.

 http://www.media-crypt.com/pages/fidea.html

Cheers,
Jeroen 

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