>Note, this isn't a copyright issue, Sun aren't basing the copyright
>licence upon any patent covenant.   That is, there's no problem copying
>this code to anywhere.   The patent will only cover actually using the
>algorithm patented (by any code of course, so writing our own code to
>handle it would be exactly the wrong thing to do, at least in any
>jurisdiction covered by the patent), so just making it conditionally
>compilable would work just fine to allow people to exclude it.

	and as i believe you are well aware of, there are *a lot* of patents
	filed for elliptic curve crypto algorithms.

itojun