Re: sorry to open a can of worrm but... pgp is non-free?
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
> Pgp's copyright includes:
>
> Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this compilation for
> any non-commercial purpose is hereby granted without fee, subject to
> the following license:
>
> <snip>
>
> Doesn't this make pgp non-free? And yet debian depends on it for
> development.
AFAIK, it was because it used IDEA, and you need a license to use
IDEA for commercial purposes. Now that PGP 5.0 doesn't use IDEA,
it may be worth it to look at the new license to see what happened.
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@noah.dfis.ull.es
Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experimental
Univ. de La Laguna
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