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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Fwd: Re: RFE kmail with S/MIME
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-05-17 18:47:36
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On Saturday 17 May 2003 20:23, Stefan Rompf wrote:
> Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> > 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
>
> Being the author of the KSMIMECrypto class, I was not aware of the
> patent. I will look into this and try to find out if and how it
> concerns KDE. I was hoping to make S/MIME available to all KDE
> applications, may be integrating with KMime later.
>
> If IBM requires licensing every application, this generic approach
> would be impossible.

FYI, George Staikos wrote:
> I'll take care of the IBM issue.  I am in the process of contacting
> them now.  

So hopefully this patent problem will be resolved soon.

Regards,
Ingo


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