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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:20:26 ADT
Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)
Thu, 16 Jul 1998 17:05:54 +1000 (EST)
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Bruce Schneier wrote:
> Can someone give me a pointer to the Certicom patent claims. I must have been
> asleep here.
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1363/letters/Certicom.txt
is the letter they sent in response to the P1363 enquiry.
In the event that the standard cannot be practiced without the use
of one or more issued patents which are now or hereafter owned or
controlled by Certicom, Certicom agrees upon request to grant a
non-exclusive license under such patent or patents on a
nondiscriminatory basis and on reasonable terms and conditions
including its then current royalty rates and provided a similar
grant under licensee's patents within the scope of the license
granted to licensee is made available upon request to Certicom.
The royalty etc means that there will be a $$ cost associated with ECC if
Certicom has a patent that covers your product. They will probably be fair
and reasonable but there is still a cost and I don't know how free software
will fit into their plans.
eric
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:20:26 ADT