Re: LYNX-DEV fotemods chartrans & SSL

[Foteos Macrides]

David Woolley <address@hidden> wrote:
>> worried about that.  I'm still not clear on whether that precludes
>> using the SSLeay libraries in the US, but if that turns out to be the
>> case, Lou is now a big honcho at Netscape, I don't thing Netscape
>> patented it out of concern about clients such as Lynx, and so I'm
>
>Although Microsoft would be the obvious prime target, my guess is that
>Apache + SSL might be hurting Netscape, so I wouldn't be too sure that
>they would take a benign view of freeware.

        I contacted Lou and he replied that Netscape doesn't care what
is used by WWW software, freeware or commercial.  They want SSL used
as widely as possible, and patented it simply to protect themselves
against some other company doing that.

                                Fote

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