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Re: [ipwave] About OCB patch for ath10k driver on linux

Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> Thu, 28 May 2020 01:33 UTC

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Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 21:33:34 -0400
From: Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca>
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Subject: Re: [ipwave] About OCB patch for ath10k driver on linux
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On Wed, 27 May 2020, Alexandre Petrescu wrote:

> Le 26/05/2020 à 18:40, Paul Wouters a écrit :
>>  Not it is not the code licence I’m worried about but the IPR claims on
>>  OCB.
>
> Do you think the OCB mode of 802.11 is IPR'ed?  Where can I search the 
> claims?

It is the other way around. There is IPR on OCB, and for _some uses_
there are royalty free licenses. For most use cases, AFAIK, there is
no such license.

We have some IPR related claims at IETF here:

 	https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/search/?submit=draft&id=draft-irtf-cfrg-ocb

And wikipedia lists:

 	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCB_mode

 	By January 2013, the author has granted a free license for any open
 	source license certified by the Open Source Initiative.[8]

The original site with license seems to have vanished:

 	https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/license.htm


So yes, I think OCB in proprietary implementation of 802.11 would
require a non-free license, and would therefor not be suitable for
an IETF standard.

Paul

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