[68107] in Cypherpunks
Re: Royalties
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy C. May)
Tue Oct 15 23:31:47 1996
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SCO.3.93.961015192159.9275D-100000@grctechs.va.grci.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 20:23:39 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
At 7:32 PM -0400 10/15/96, Mark O. Aldrich wrote:
>You cannot commercialize PGP whether you pay Ascom-Tech any royalties or
>not. Phil Zimmermann grated an exclusive license to ViaCrypt, Inc. a
>number of years ago to be the sole commercial version of PGP. In the mean
>time, PGP Inc. was formed and has acquired ViaCrypt. Thus, PGP Inc. now
>holds the exclusive license on commercial PGP products. Just by chance,
>Phil Zimmermann is the CEO of PGP Inc.
It seems a bit strange that PGP Inc. is so fastidious about enforcing
intellectual property claims, given the treatment of RSA Data Security
Inc.'s similar property claims a few years ago.
In other words, I don't worry for one nanosecond about "infringing" on PGP
Inc.'s claimed property rights.
Nothing personal.
--Tim May
"The government announcement is disastrous," said Jim Bidzos,.."We warned IBM
that the National Security Agency would try to twist their technology."
[NYT, 1996-10-02]
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed.
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Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments.
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