[6648] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: ZKS hires Brands, licenses patents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Wed Feb 23 11:37:47 2000
From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
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Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 11:14:48 -0500 (EST)
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, coderpunks@toad.com, cryptography@c2.net
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lcs Mixmaster Remailer writes:
> Have their been other open source projects which used patented technology
> owned by the company releasing the source? How has the licensing been
> handled in those cases?
Basically, "You get a license for this patented algorithm only if you
use this source code." Details are at http://opensource.org/licenses/
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