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Date: Sat, 7 May 94 05:11:51 EDT From: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204) To: andy@autodesk.com Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com > From: Andrew Purshottam <andy@autodesk.com> > > For starters, does use by employees at work for routine email count > as "non-commercial"? Unlike copyright's "Fair Use", there isn't a standard official definition of "non-commercial" that lets you use patented products; individual patent holders choose to allow non-commercial use of their products, according to howerver they decide to define non-commercial. Somebody who's read the RSAREF 2.0 license says that PKP's definition of non-commercial lets you use their stuff free if you agree to their license terms (including non-export), including using it to encrypt commercial traffic, as long as you're not charging money for the software you're using. Since I haven't read the latest license document, I don't know. At least at one time, I think Ascom-Tech treated IDEA the same way, but I got mail from somebody saying something was posted to alt.security.pgp a month or so ago with a different statement from Ascom-Tech. (I didn't see it.) Besides uses permitted by the patent holder, there are standard exceptions to patent license requirements; basically for learning how the stuff works and similar research.
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