[7299] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
GNU Privacy Guard license question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (P.J. Ponder)
Mon Jun 12 17:26:14 2000
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 11:30:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: "P.J. Ponder" <ponder@freenet.tlh.fl.us>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.1000612112922.28581C-100000@fn3.freenet.tlh.fl.us>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
from the documentation for GnuPG:
http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/pgp2x/t1.html
| Note: Using the extension modules idea.c and rsa.c without licensing the
| patented algorithms they implement may be illegal. I do not recommend
| you use these modules. If you have PGP 2.x keys, I suggest you revoke
| them in favor of new keys and encourage correspondents who use PGP 2.x
| keys to do the same.
Is this right? If one obtained PGP 2.x legally, and used RSA and IDEA in
conformance with the original license for personal use, would that license
permit the use of the older PGP keys with Gnu Privacy Guard?
I don't have a copy of the old PGP license around. I presume one could
continue to use PGP 2.x indefinitley under the old license.
Will this change in a couple of months when the RSA paptent expires?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGP 6.5.3
Comment: RSA 1024 key
iQCVAwUBOUT8DF3wG27m1aM1AQEVOQQAn/M9+HfuKqRTJMA9LHlNhxizWndUdVFB
lImSGWmd8rqEqyPCS6KlyLF0IK9Hz+Sz9+6LywaTcpibTDZWhzQqoefg4ty3vbYB
AGZ2upZBOlVB7NKFN33w/g8EA3OszRfzVEKKWVEmWvZvcgm6WxbMBdLr+ax0lxKr
HF0I1y98DN4=
=Afey
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
