From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 19 07:50:35 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA00643 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:50:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hera.webcom.com (hera.webcom.com [209.1.28.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA00638 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:50:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from graeme@echidna.com) Received: from eresh.webcom.com (eresh.webcom.com [209.1.28.49]) by hera.webcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id HAA24570 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 07:50:15 -0800 Received: from [204.143.69.27] by inanna.webcom.com (WebCom SMTP 1.2.1) with SMTP id 16444741; Tue Jan 19 07:48 PST 1999 Message-Id: <36A4A9D3.3CA9@echidna.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:50:43 -0500 From: Graeme Tait Organization: Echidna X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Graeme@echidna.com Subject: RSA license for SSL for Apache Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this, but questions seems to have the biggest audience. A friend just saw a Red Hat Linux 5.2 package, which was labelled as including "Apache US SSL secure server" with a "single-server advanced cryptography license from RSA". I assume this means a license for commercial use. This certainly gives a powerful incentive to use Red Hat for a web server. I wonder if Walnut Creek CD-ROM could offer a similar distribution of FreeBSD? The problem for US users is that RSA do not have a licensing model suited to individual commercial use. From what RSA told me last year, it would take a company with significant sales to strike up a licensing agreement with them. The licensing cost per package is probably small - the problem is RSA require a large "down payment" on account, from which the per-product fees are then taken. When you look at the price of the Stronghold Apache/SSL package ($1000), I'm sure you could charge quite a few dollars extra for a distribution of FreeBSD including the RSA license. -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message