IDEA License

2013-03-25 Thread Jan Chaloupecky
Hi, is the IDEA algorithm licensed? Under which conditions am I allowed to use the idea extension in a commercial product? cheers -- Jan ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: IDEA License

2013-03-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:46, chal...@gmail.com said: is the IDEA algorithm licensed? Under which conditions am I allowed to use the idea extension in a commercial product? I assume your question is: Is the IDEA algorithm patented? It was patented and this was one or the main reasons to develop

Re: IDEA License

2013-03-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, is the IDEA algorithm licensed? Wrong question ! Try: copyright? patented? Under which conditions am I allowed to use the idea extension in a commercial product? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Data_Encryption_Algorithm#Availability Cheers, Julian -- Julian

Re: IDEA License

2013-03-25 Thread Doug Barton
On 3/25/2013 12:01 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 25/03/13 14:22, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi, is the IDEA algorithm licensed? Wrong question ! Try: copyright? patented? Copyright on an algorithm? Don't you mean a particular implementation of the algorithm? IOW: Wrong question,

Re: IDEA License

2013-03-25 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 25/03/13 20:06, Doug Barton wrote: He clarified that in a subsequent post. The usual netiquette is to read the entire thread before responding to any individual post. I see only one post by Julian H Stacey, and the web archive[1] agrees, so maybe you got a private mail? (But why?) Anyway, I

Re: IDEA License

2013-03-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:00, chal...@gmail.com said: I have to use GnuPG 1.4.10 and a self compiled idea.c from here You better use 1.4.13. ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/gentoo/distfiles/idea.c.gz so the question is .. can I ship the idea shared object with my software? The idea.c

(OT) Re: IDEA License

2013-03-25 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 25/03/13 20:49, Doug Barton wrote: Thus endeth the lesson, Yeah, after I wrote my reply, I wondered if it was even wise to fight fire with fire. So the lesson didn't come entirely unexpected. I respectfully disagree that the mail didn't warrant a reply at all. One could also simply point out

Re: IDEA License

2013-03-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi gnupg-users@gnupg.org cc Werner K. I wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Data_Encryption_Algorithm#Availability Werner posted: Meanwhile the patent expired: * Patents on IDEA have expired: * Europe: EP0482154 on 2011-05-16, * Japan: JP3225440 on 2011-05-16, *