open source

Wesley James Landaker wjl@mindless.com
Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:05:40 -0600


Wayne Davis wrote:


> The folks ate NAI/PGP have made the assertion that GPG has taken PGP and
> reverse engineered it in order to obtain the source fo GPG.
> Can you provide the GPG side of this story?
First of all, that's laughable. Take a look at GPG's code and PGP's code and it's obvious that they aren't copies of each other. Second, if someone wanted to copy PGP, what's to reverse engineer?! PGP's source is freely availible. You can download it and look at it or compile it or whatever. You don't have to "reverse engineer" anything. =) -- Archive is at http://lists.gnupg.org - Unsubscribe by sending mail with a subject of "unsubscribe" to gnupg-users-request@gnupg.org