* Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn:
> I'm trying to get pycryptopp and Tahoe-LAFS into Fedora, and one tiny
> little detail that I have to work-around is that MARS is patented.
> Fedora already includes a version of Crypto++ 5.6.0 with mars.cpp
> stripped out, so the only reason I even have to be aware of this
> detail is that I included a copy of Crypto++ v5.6.0 inside the
> pycryptopp source distribution, and now I suppose I need to remove
> mars.cpp from that embedded copy.
>
Huh? The IETF has got a statement from IBM on file, stating that "IBM
has publically announced that as of January 18, 2000 we are making
MARS available on a royalty free basis woldwide regardless of the AES
outcome." Or stem the patent problems from a non-IBM patent?
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