On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:44 AM, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
Hi all,
We explicitly exclude the "International Data Encryption Algorithm"
(IDEA) in a few Fedora packages (bouncycastle, opengpg, ?) due to its
patent issues. Recently it occurred to me that this patent [1] may
actually have been expired by now. There is some debate in the
wikipedia's discussion page about this topic [2]. From what I
understand, the general perception is that the US patent expired in
May 2011.
Could you please check this?
When is it possible to have the IDEA in Fedora?
Thanks,
Hi,
I was wondering if somebody had a chance to investigate this problem
but then forgot to reply to the thread due to the time spent on
celebrations of finding the solution.
Thanks,
Orcan