From: jgrubs@voxbox.norden1.com (Jim Grubs, W8GRT)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 18:03:11 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Is it legal for commercial companies to use PGP?
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Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org> writes:

> 
> > Rick Busdiecker <rfb@lehman.com> writes:
> >   From: "Jim Grubs, W8GRT" <jgrubs@voxbox.norden1.com>
> 
> >   In practice, I'd probably buy Viacrypt for legal reasons but use
> >   PGP anyway.
> 
> >I'd be interesting in hearing some of the lawyers out there comment on
> >this.
> 
> Does RSADSI count as having lawyers?  So far as I know they have not
> commented in public about whether the ViaCrypt license is valid, but
> they have also not (to my knowledge) contested it.  However, Jim Bidzos
> has explicitly said that it is not acceptable to buy a ViaCrypt license
> to cover your use of non-ViaCrypt PGP.

Hmm, does that make anyone besides me wonder about that unpulished source
code? 



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