https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1487067
Thomas Moschny <thomas.moschny(a)gmx.de> changed:
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Blocks| |182235 (FE-Legal)
--- Comment #13 from Thomas Moschny <thomas.moschny(a)gmx.de> ---
(In reply to Jack Lloyd from comment #12)
Upstream maintainer here. I'm not aware of any patents
(whatsoever, in any
jurisdiction) on GOST-34.10 signature scheme. Nor am I aware of any
(unexpired) patents affecting the ECC code. Obviously you can remove
whatever you like, but if your legal knows something I don't please share.
That's why I put spot on CC. He (with his Fedora Legal Hat on) is the one to
answer what can be kept and what has to be removed.
(Earlier experience shows that it might not be possible for the Legal Team to
share the exact reasoning, though.)
Blocking FE-Legal now. But don't get me wrong: I'd be totally happy to get
their OK.
Only thing added in 2.x that I know is patented is OCB mode, for
which there
is a free license for open source code. OpenSSL has OCB as well so I guess
you would just follow whatever decision you made for them.
Just looking at
http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/license.htm , I see
there is a special license for OpenSSL.
I would think that we need a similar license for Botan, or we have to remove
OCB from the Fedora package. The reason is, that (in my own terms, IANAL)
Fedora packages need to be free and not limited to Open Source projects (for
the same reason the NC variants of CC are not allowed in Fedora).
Referenced Bugs:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=182235
[Bug 182235] Fedora Legal Tracker
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