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Re: Patent status of SRP, SPEKE, etc.?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Altman)
Tue Oct 24 21:52:13 2000
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:02:59 EDT
From: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@columbia.edu>
Reply-To: jaltman@columbia.edu
To: Radia Perlman - Boston Center for Networking <Radia.Perlman@East.Sun.COM>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:01:11 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.4.972399779.jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu>
> About SRP:
>
> 1) is it also royalty free for commercial use? I'd heard it
> was for "noncommercial use"
>
Here is the text from the LICENSE file included in distribution:
SRP and all related technologies are free for both commercial and
non-commercial use. They are distributed under a standard
X11-style Open Source license which is shown below.
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer
The Kermit Project * Columbia University
612 West 115th St * New York, NY * 10025 * USA
http://www.kermit-project.org/ * kermit-support@kermit-project.org
