Re: IDEA patent issue with bcprov in repo on ws zone?

[Ruchith Fernando]

WSS4J and Rampart right now picks up the bouncycastle jars from here. And we need to distribute the library with the releases. Is this possible now? Should we remove the bouncycastle jars from the m2 repo?

Thanks,
Ruchith

Jeremy Boynes wrote:

There is a copy of the bouncycastle library in the Maven repo at http://ws.zones.apache.org/repository2 and on previous occasion I've been advised by legal-discuss against using the standard distribution at Apache due to the IDEA patent clause in its license[1]. There has been talk about getting a version from BouncyCastle without the IDEA code in it and I was wondering if this was such an unencumbered version. I did a quick look through and it does look like the IDEA code is present.

Thanks
Jeremy

[1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200702.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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