See RSA Security's press release at

http://www.rsasecurity.com/news/pr/000906-1.html (September 6, 2000):
"RSA Security Releases RSA Encryption Algorithm into Public Domain"

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@@ -86,12 +86,6 @@ offer legal advice.
 You can configure OpenSSL so as not to use RC5 and IDEA by using
  ./config no-rc5 no-idea
 
-Until the RSA patent expires, U.S. users may want to use
- ./config no-rc5 no-idea no-rsa
-
-Please note that you will *not* be able to communicate with most of
-the popular web browsers without RSA support.
-
 
 * Is OpenSSL thread-safe?
 

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@@ -99,13 +99,12 @@
  country.  The file contains some of the patents that we know about or are
  rumoured to exist. This is not a definitive list.
 
- RSA Data Security holds software patents on the RSA and RC5 algorithms.  If
- their ciphers are used used inside the USA (and Japan?), you must contact RSA
- Data Security for licensing conditions. Their web page is
- http://www.rsa.com/.
+ RSA Security holds software patents on the RC5 algorithm.  If you
+ intend to use this cipher, you must contact RSA Security for
+ licensing conditions. Their web page is http://www.rsasecurity.com/.
 
- RC4 is a trademark of RSA Data Security, so use of this label should perhaps
- only be used with RSA Data Security's permission. 
+ RC4 is a trademark of RSA Security, so use of this label should perhaps
+ only be used with RSA Security's permission. 
 
  The IDEA algorithm is patented by Ascom in Austria, France, Germany, Italy,
  Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the USA.  They should
@@ -119,9 +118,6 @@
  a Win32 platform, read the INSTALL.W32 file.  For OpenVMS systems, read
  INSTALL.VMS.
 
- For people in the USA, it is possible to compile OpenSSL to use RSA Inc.'s
- public key library, RSAREF, by configuring OpenSSL with the option "rsaref".
-
  Read the documentation in the doc/ directory.  It is quite rough, but it
  lists the functions, you will probably have to look at the code to work out
  how to used them. Look at the example programs.