[Fwd: Re: Please oppose patent-encumbered technologies, including draft-housley-tls-authz-extns]
Ben Finney
ben at benfinney.id.au
Thu Jan 31 22:21:27 UTC 2008
On 01-Nov-2007, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Ben Finney <ben-TqlCGjI+HWGnbCmf7pGUHw at public.gmane.org> writes:
>
> > Over on the IETF discussion list, I've been asked to "present
> > evidence" about the patent-encumbered status of the technology in
> > 'draft-housley-tls-authz-extns'.
> As far as I know, there is only a patent application at this time,
> but it is likely to be published as a patent eventually.
Thanks. Can you point us to information about the specific patent
application?
> The author's company was founded in 2005. I'm not sure what "patent
> enforcement" means in practice. In any case, I'm not aware of any
> lawsuits from them, but I haven't looked. They have been trying to
> get GnuTLS to sign their patent license though.
I don't suppose any of this is online where I can point others to it?
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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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