Re: pgp in Debian: obsolete?
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
> > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> >> You don't need to make a second version of GPG; the IDEA module can be
> >> >> loaded dynamically.
> >> > Then the module would need to be in non-free.
> >> non-us, I think.
> >
> > non-free in non-us, actually.
>
> Why non-free? The code is available under a DFSG-free copyright
> license.
The one I have here isn't, but if you have one that is entirely DFSG-free,
that's much better.
The whole issue with IDEA has always been the patents, anyway. The
non-DFSG-freeness of the IDEA module (or of certain versions of it, anyway)
look a lot like an attempt of the author to protect himself from patent
problems.
--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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