Re: LYNX-DEV HTTPS & Lynx?

[Jim Gerland]

On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, David Woolley wrote:
> SSL Lynx can't be distributed in the USA because the RSA patent restricts 
> commercial distribution and the GPL doesn't permit such a restriction.
> The way the RSA patent is enforced means that a US binary cannot even be
> distributed outside of the USA within the terms of the GPL.

How do Netscape and Microsoft do it then?
 
> (Incidentally, I've never yet hit an https link with Lynx - most of them are
> associated with web shopping sites, and these are often generally Lynx 
> unfriendly.)

Well, we're using secure trtansactions for grades and student financial
data.  I doubt that we're the only university doing (or thinking of doing)
this.
Thanks,
Jim...