HOWTO on interfacing with gnupg/pgp?
Len Sassaman
rabbi@quickie.net
Tue Jun 19 04:19:01 2001
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Anthony E . Greene wrote:
> He can only use the GPL if he is the copyright holder of all the included
> code, or if the included code has been previously licensed under the GPL.
> I'm not sure he had the right to license the algorithms under the GPL. I
> would talk to a lawyer before depending on PGP 2.3 being GPL.
PGP 1.0 was GPL'd as well, and there's a rather nice RSA implementation as
part of it. FWIW, 1.0 did not use IDEA, but is also completely
incompatable with any PGP implementation we're using today.
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