The problem is cost. If licensing were cheap, Stronghold, Raven, and
others would have a somewhat hard time staying in business (an issue
they'll all have to address soon enough). The SSL vendors have an OEM
license of some sort and so what you pay for a right-to-use license is a
much smaller hunk of change especially because it's spread across a large
customer base. So, if you can't wait till September, don't want to risk
being in violation of a license and getting caught, and don't want to fork
over $3-4K, the Stronghold/Raven route is a much better choice.
-- Rob
--On Friday, July 07, 2000 12:42 PM -0700 Scott Alexander
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So if i didn't want to wait, how would I go about getting an RSA
> liscense? to have a mod_ssl server before then.
>
> Also, are the CA's willing to sign for this time of server?
>
> Scott
> On 7 Jul 2000, at 11:34, Rob Tanner wrote:
>> If you can patiently wait till September 21 when the RSA patents expire
>> covering the SSL algorithms, then you can use mod_ssl without fear of
>> patent violations or lawsuits.
>
>
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