GnuPG 1.1.91 released

Johan Wevers johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl
Fri Aug 9 10:18:13 2002


Werner Koch wrote:

>> Well, OK. But just distributing IDEA together with a note that it may
>> only be used freely for personal use in some countries and such legal
>> blabla would be a much easier solution.

> There is no free personal use per se.  You have to get an approvement
> from Ascom for this.

Only in certain countries. In some countries they didn't register a patent,
and some don't accept software patents so they can't. In those countries the
use of IDEA is free. And in others, well, let the users decice for
themselves wether they register with Ascom.

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