Re: sorry to open a can of worrm but... pgp is non-free?

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Jim Pick 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.
> 
> Yes.  But what can we do?  There isn't an equivalent free software
> package.
> 
> I believe that the FSF Task List has an entry for writing replacements
> for PGP and ssh.  
> 
> http://www.fsf.org/prep/tasks_8.html#SEC8
> 
> Sounds like a high-profile opportunity to me.  Of course, I'm not going
> to volunteer, since writing good crypto code takes a lot of experience.
> 
Not to mention a willingness to spend several years in court fighting for
you liberty ;-)

Dwarf
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