GnuPG code in Mozilla: GPL issues?

[Billy Donahue]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Werner Koch wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Adam Lock wrote:
> 
> > I understand that PGP is available as an SDK. Surely they couldn't do this either if
> > they were faced with the same issues concerning libraries as GPG is?
> 
> They do it because PGP 5 or 6 is not so flexible as GnuPG ;-)
> 
> Have you ever asked yourself why gcc does not incorporate the linker
> and assembler but leaves these jobs to specialized programs.  Dividing
> software into modules is good engineering practice and if you have the
> opportunity to do information hiding you should do so.  Of course
> there are some application which needs as most performance as they can
> squeeze out of the system and therefore the modules are linked
> together.  As I already mentioned, the resources needed for process
> creation and IPC between a program and gpg are much less than the
> resources gpg needs for its processing.

So in other words, if you need a library, write a library that
uses fork/exec to use a gpg binary?

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