Okembe Mbwambo [okembe.mbwa...@yandex.com] wrote: > On 25/05/15 02:50:50 PM, Douglas Ray wrote: > > > 2. The "FOSS exception" clause above won't help with existing > > OpenBSD policy, insofar as I understand it here: > > http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html > > [note section towards end on GPL under "Specific Cases"] > > 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.
