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- From: boucher@csl.sri.com (Peter K. Boucher)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.org.eff.talk,alt.privacy,talk.politics.guns
- Subject: Re: Risks of Using PGP 2.0
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 05:37:00 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Lab, SRI International
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- In article <kPRHuB8w165w@mantis.co.uk>, mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
- |> boucher@csl.sri.com (Peter K. Boucher) writes:
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- [stuff deleted]
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- |> > PGP is not licensed. A license to
- |> > the maker of PGP has always been (and still is) available, but it
- |> > would not be free (which would be unfair to other licensees, whose
- |> > licenses were not free).
- |>
- |> According to the author of PGP, Philip Zimmermann, PKP have stated that they
- |> will not offer a license to any user of PGP. (See the PGP manual, volume II,
- |> "Legal Issues".) Someone is not telling the entire truth. Who is it?
-
- [stuff deleted]
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- Ooohhh... Somebody's lying! Well, maybe we're both right and nobody's lying...
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- They won't license PGP users, but they would sell a license to Philip Zimmerman.
- He doesn't want to pay their price for something he's giving away. Would you?
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- What would happen if all the places that want to _buy_ PGP licenses (I assume
- that there are lots of companies that would pay a reasonable price for a
- license) would pool their money and give it to Zimmerman, so he could buy the
- license (and continue giving PGP away for free)?
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