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Bug 398439 - dev-libs/openssl: IDEA patents have expired
Summary: dev-libs/openssl: IDEA patents have expired
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Library (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2012-01-10 22:29 UTC by Ulrich Müller
Modified: 2012-01-11 00:12 UTC (History)
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Description Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2012-01-10 22:29:32 UTC 
The patents for the IDEA algorithm have expired:
- in Europe on 2011-05-16
- in the U.S. on 2012-01-07

So the $(use_ssl !bindist idea) conditional in src_configure is no longer necessary and could be replaced by enable-idea.

The flag's description in metadata.xml should be updated accordingly.
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2012-01-10 23:48:02 UTC 
should be good to go according to this too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Data_Encryption_Algorithm#Availability