[68141] in Cypherpunks
Re: Royalties
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark O. Aldrich)
Wed Oct 16 10:50:21 1996
My-From: maldrich@grci.com
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 10:16:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mark O. Aldrich" <maldrich@grci.com>
To: pclow <pclow@pc.jaring.my>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <32648F4D.5F75@pc.jaring.my>
On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, pclow wrote:
> 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.
>
> Even the international version of PGP?
>
All versions of PGP are owned by PGP Inc. The international version is
still their product, even if they give it away instead of commercially
sell it. From what I understand, Ascom Tech requires a license fee if the
product gets sold over in Europe, and I imagine the PGP Inc. will now have
to pay up when they begin to shrink wrap the international version over
there.
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