similar to: More [A tangent on RC5] Cryptography patents (was: openssl lib question.)

Sunil-- Actually, you do not "see that openssl has some patent issues." You do see that OpenSSL implements many algorithms, some of which have been (at various times) been patented or encumbered in some countries. Without knowing what country you're in, none of us here can really give useful advice as to which software/algorithm patents could potentially apply. To the best of my

Does the reason Theora is relatively safe from patent infringement lawsuit have more to do with it actually not being encumbered, or is it because its use is decentralized? For example, FreeType is not patent-free, nor is Linux, yet they succeed because on the one hand, they are open source, and those who maintain them do not guarantee anything regarding patents, it is up to each individual user

The specific standards process used to develop the MPEG codecs creates patent minefields that royalty-free codecs don't generally face. Because many knowledgeable people have heard of the problems faced by these patent-soup standards, they may extrapolate these risk to codecs developed under a different process where these problems are less considerable. This is a mistake, and I'll explain

Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> wrote: On 29 Dec 2000, sunil vallamkonda wrote: > Hello, > > Looking at: > http://www.openssh.com/features.html > > Under 'Free Licensing' section: > > "any licensed or patented components are chosen from > external libraries (e.g. OpenSSL)" > > Can someone please enlighten me which > components

OpenSSH Developers, I'm researching whether or not OpenSSH is a viable commercial alternative to F-SECURE SSH or SSH.COM's ssh, but I'm not getting the kind of results that I expected from a "Non patent encumbered ssh client". When I attempt to build OpenSSH against an OpenSSL build without rc5, idea, or rsa it bombs since OpenSSL doesn't place the header files in the

Nico-- SSH is trying to "get entropy" by taking the (somewhat-deterministic) output of a bunch of system commands, on those OSs that don't provide a /dev/random or its equivalent. The commands that it uses are in /etc/ssh_prng_cmds or its equivalent on your system; just comment out any of the lines (and stop/restart SSHd) in order to change which system commands are used as inputs

Hello. I have been having trouble configuring the source code for the abovementioned. I have to use RSARef as I'm a resident of the USA, so I can avoid patent violation. The configure script fails to see the OpenSSL+RSAref mix on three different platforms, including the following: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE (Which has its own port, but I wanted to try it there to see if I could reliably reproduce

The list probably did not get this reply from D Richard Felker III. Having read quite a few patents I tend to agree with Richard: Software patents are very broad and even if I have not read the source code of Theora I would be surprised if it did not infringe several patents. However, I believe the argument that On2 has not been sued for infringing the MPEG-patents is a very strong argument.

Cologne, 10.12.00 Dear Sir, Dear Madam, We are concerned about the possibility that the European Commission might introduce software patenting into the European Community because we think this will harm our profession. We make our living on data management and statistical analyses. Modern statistics crucially depends on algorithms [cf. Venables, W. N., & Ripley, B. D. (1999). Modern applied

Well, I've finally gotten around to compiling and testing OpenSSH 2.5.2p1, in order to update the contrib/solaris packaging scripts. Somehow on my test system, I'm getting errors that indicate that I've still got some old copy of OpenSSL being found somewhere...but I can't for the life of me tell where. The compile went fine (it found the OpenSSL 0.9.5a libraries that I had

Craig Dickson (crdic@yahoo.com) wrote : > Jack Moffitt wrote: > > > I agree that this might be the case. But what happens with the > > violation is by the author? :) > > > > Ie, in the case of PlusV releasing a patented codec under the GPL or in > > the case of LAME or FreeType's authors doing similar things. What > > state is that? > >

Here in the uk, to get a patent on anything, you have to prove that the patent is not obvious and that there is no prior art. If there is prior art, then a patent cannot be given, this is why people patenting stuff have to keep it a secret until they actually have the patent, otherwise it is considered to have been released into the public domain. Once something is in the public domain, nobody

-----Original Message----- From: Loomis, Rip Sent: Tuesday, 19 June, 2001 09:10 To: 'geoff at raye.com' Subject: RE: poor permissions on ssh binary Geoff-- You stated that you consider it "a poor choice of permissions" to install the ssh binary as mode 0711. Since it will run perfectly with even more restrictive permissions (we typically install it mode 0511 here), what is

I know Tarkin is not the priority right now, but when it becomes it's good to know which company might feel nervous... ------------------------------------------ Compaq sued for alleged patent violations By Bloomberg News November 20, 2000, 5:30 a.m. PT WILMINGTON, Del.--Compaq Computer, the world's biggest personal computer maker, has been sued by a group for allegedly infringing

> > I need to create one bootable UEFI disk partition that contains all the > space on the disk. The steps must work in a shell script. Ideally with > syslinux/extlinux but if not possible then grub. > > > > echo format file system > sudo mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/${DISK_DEVICE_NAME_CURRENT_OS}1 > EFI requires a FAT filesystem. Ideally FAT32 but that might be encumbered

Hi nice Vorbis people, I've been following the work on Ogg and Vorbis for some time, and I've been very impressed with the work so far. I'd like to introduce myself and volunteer for some work as it's needed. I'm very excited about the prospect of developing open-source audio coding technologies that are not encumbered by patents, and think this has the potential to be very

Howdy, The string of notices on BugTraq about RSAref being vulnerable to overflows has me concerned. After trying to sort through all the messages, I can't figure out whether I need to update OpenSSL (a check of their website indicates no new patches), OpenSSH, both, or neither. I am aware there is no known exploit for it yet. I could be a bad boy and just run all

AFAIK g729 patent is expiring sometime in 2019-2020. Mitul Limbani On Feb 8, 2017 5:02 AM, "Victor Villarreal" <mefhigoseth at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I understand your question and your point, but I use the g729 codec from > the link that Carlos share, for almost 6 years from Asterisk 1.4 to v13 > without a single problem. > > So, sory but I

On 11/07/16 14:27, Phil Pokorny via Syslinux wrote: > > EFI requires a FAT filesystem. Ideally FAT32 but that might be encumbered > by Microsoft patents? Maximum size of a FAT16 partition is 2GB. > > Use mkfs.vfat You can try the "-F 32" if you're not worried about being > sued by Microsoft. > I'm not a lawyer, and this is NOT legal advice, but: 1.

Hi, 2013/6/25 "Thomas B. R?cker" <thomas at ruecker.fi>: > On 06/24/2013 06:27 PM, Thomas R?cker wrote: >> Just going to drop my 0,02? here too. >> >> On 24 June 2013 16:47, Daniel James <daniel.james at sourcefabric.org> wrote: >>> Hi Greg, >>> >>>> The open source AAC/HE-AAC encoders offer pretty poor audio quality.