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