26.05.2015, 23:08, "Chris Cappuccio" <ch...@nmedia.net>:

>>  FWIW, a BSD-licensed NTRU implementation exists at 
>> https://github.com/tbuktu/libntru and while it is patent encumbered, it 
>> offers a compile switch that causes it to become patent free in 2017 as 
>> opposed to the GPL implementation which will be patent encumbered until 2020.
>
> Are the patents held by the copyright authors? If the copyright is not held 
> by the patent holder, I imagine this becomes much less important.

>From the description on the GitHub page, it looks to me like the BSD-licensed 
>implementation was written by somebody not affiliated with the patent holder. 
>But I guess the only way to know for sure is to ask.

Okembe

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