From: Richard Johnson <Richard.Johnson@Colorado.EDU>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 94 00:37:21 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: PGP 2.6 legal_kludge
Message-ID: <199407040738.BAA12513@spot.Colorado.EDU>
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  nobody wrote:

> Also, concerning the PGP 2.3a/2.6/2.6ui controversy, is the only "problem"
> with 2.6 the fact that after 9/1/94 it will start reporting an incompatible
> version number that will make its output unreadable by older versions?  If
> so, and if source code is available, why couldn't the date checking routine
> be located in the source code and simply commented out, then the whole
> thing recompiled?

Because the license prohibits nuking the "legal_kludge".  You wouldn't
want to violate the MIT PGP 2.6 license, now would you. ;-)


Rich