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RSA/Cylink arbitration agreement on-line
[I haven't seen this mentioned yet on the list...]
Cylink has been kind enough to put a copy of the arbitration panel's
decision on their web page. Cylink's home page is www.cylink.com. The
URL for the actual agreement is:
http://www.cylink.com/arbtrn_1.html
Spin doctors aside, it doesn't look like either company gained much over
the other. I'm not an attorney, but the way I read the agreement RSAREF
can continue to be used without violating the Stanford patents. RSA DSI
cannot *sublicense* the Stanford patents to third parties, but can *sell
code* that practices the methods claimed in the Stanford patents. That
code can then be incorporated into other products, which is exactly what
PGP 2.6.2 does (it's linked against a copy of the RSAREF library, which
is covered by the RSAREF license agreement).
--bal