Fwd: Re: RFE kmail with S/MIME

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Saturday 17 May 2003 00:12, George Staikos wrote:
> On Friday 16 May 2003 17:42, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > This is an interesting question from Alan Cox...
> >
> > Subject: Re: RFE kmail with S/MIME
> > Date: Wednesday 14 May 2003 01:33
> > From: Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com>
> >
> > > Although the Aegypten project added some S/MIME suport to kmail, it was
> > > not integrated.  There is now an integrated KSSL based S/MIME
> > > capability in the cvs.
> >
> > Have the kmail people obtained rights to use IBM patent 5953420 ? Do they
> > know about that IBM patent ?
> >
> > http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/IBM-diffie-hellman.html
>
>   Very interesting point.  Does it even matter given that OpenSSL does all
> of this though? 

No, I don't think so. What matters is whether the resulting end-product 
infringes on the patent.

> I would think that they would be the ones required to 
> obtain these rights.  In any case, it looks like it's free so it can't
> hurt... Should KMail developers do this, or KSSL developers?

KSSL developers seems a more appropriate choice since that would cover 
applications other than KMail, if such applications where to appear.

Cheers,
Waldo
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