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- From: bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev)
- Subject: Re: PGP use Ethical and Legal Questions
- Message-ID: <bontchev.725117135@fbihh>
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
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- Organization: Virus Test Center, University of Hamburg
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 13:25:35 GMT
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- rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) writes:
-
- > Essentially, RSA's RSAREF license says, "Because this is our proprietary
- > algorithm, we're going to dictate that you only implement it with our source-
- > code." The RSAREF license forbids any changes (other than those needed to
- > port it, in C only, to other architectures). This means that you're not even
- > allowed to *improve* it! I'm sure that someone could find a way to run their
- > algorithm more efficiently, quicker, etc. ... but that's not allowed.
-
- Is it really not allowed? Did I understand the license incorrectly? I
- think it clearly says that any modifications of the code can be made,
- provided that the interface stays the same and you give them a copy of
- the modified code...
-
- Regards,
- Vesselin
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