On Tue, 2022-09-27 at 23:39 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-09-28 at 08:11 +0200, Julian Sikorski wrote:
> > Recently, I experienced that the German AusweisApp, which already 
> > required entering the ID card PIN on the phone [1], has stopped working 
> > altogether [2]. This is due to hobbled openssl Fedora ships. There is no 
> > openssl-freeworld in RPM Fusion, probably because it would need to be 
> > rebuilt entirely.
> 
> On this topic, have our legal advisors re-evaluated the ECC patent
> situation lately? The last patent listed in
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/openssl//blob/rawhide/f/hobble-openssl
> supposedly expired in 2020, yet we're still doing a lot of patching of
> ECC stuff in the spec. Are there other patents not listed there which
> we're still worried about?

Looks like there's a related, very slow-moving discussion on legal@:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/le...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/WUQNAB4EPWSJMMVECL2TZGKB5KIDESII/#WUQNAB4EPWSJMMVECL2TZGKB5KIDESII
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