-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 17 May 2003 00:12, George Staikos wrote: > On Friday 16 May 2003 17:42, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > This is an interesting question from Alan Cox... > > > > Subject: Re: RFE kmail with S/MIME > > Date: Wednesday 14 May 2003 01:33 > > From: Alan Cox > > > > > Although the Aegypten project added some S/MIME suport to kmail, it was > > > not integrated. There is now an integrated KSSL based S/MIME > > > capability in the cvs. > > > > Have the kmail people obtained rights to use IBM patent 5953420 ? Do they > > know about that IBM patent ? > > > > http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/IBM-diffie-hellman.html > > Very interesting point. Does it even matter given that OpenSSL does all > of this though? No, I don't think so. What matters is whether the resulting end-product infringes on the patent. > I would think that they would be the ones required to > obtain these rights. In any case, it looks like it's free so it can't > hurt... Should KMail developers do this, or KSSL developers? KSSL developers seems a more appropriate choice since that would cover applications other than KMail, if such applications where to appear. Cheers, Waldo - -- bastian@kde.org -=|[ SuSE, The Linux Desktop Experts ]|=- bastian@suse.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+xboAN4pvrENfboIRAkC3AJ4y3kDYwKsmn3FuLOmOlbb4SHYsfgCdEiKk hSXQQ9pdih0tWy2I9sFaDWQ= =JdhM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ KMail Developers mailing list kmail@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmail