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- From: wombat@nfinit.enet.dec.com (Christopher M. Conway)
- Subject: Re: RSAREF License
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.221309.22227@decabo.abo.dec.com>
- Lines: 44
- Sender: wombat@outback (Christopher M. Conway)
- Reply-To: wombat@nfinit.enet.dec.com
- Organization: Prickly Wombat Enterprises
- References: <1992Dec22.213613.1404@netcom.com> <1992Dec23.034503.26991@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:13:09 GMT
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-
- In article <1992Dec23.034503.26991@watson.ibm.com>, uri@watson.ibm.com () writes:
- - From article <1992Dec22.213613.1404@netcom.com>, by strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight):
- - > Jim Bidzos has sent me a copy of the final RSAREF license. Here it is.
- -
- - >
- - > 1. LICENSE. RSA grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable,
- - > perpetual (subject to the conditions of section 8) license
- - > for the "RSAREF" program (the "Program") and its associated
- - > documentation, subject to all of the following terms and
- - > conditions:...........................................
- - > c. to modify the Program in any manner for porting or
- - > performance improvement purposes (subject to Section 2)
- - > or to incorporate the Program into other computer programs
- - ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- - [Does this mean - PGP too? :-]
- - > for your own personal or internal use, provided that you
- - > provide RSA with a copy of any such modification or
- - > Application Program by electronic mail, and grant RSA
- - > a perpetual, royalty-free license to use and distribute
- - > such modifications and Application Programs on the terms
- - > set forth in this Agreement.
-
- Probably not.
-
- The thing I really wanted to point out is a cute little clause no one has
- mentioned so far-- the clause starting with "provided that you..." Under
- my (potentially naive) reading, this would lay claim to any program using
- their software in any way as effectively *their property*. I.e., even if
- they allowed for use of their "patented invention" in PGP, they would then
- lay claim to PGP as belonging to them.
-
- Not so hot, in my mind.
-
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- official communication of Digital Equipment Corporation.
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