From: Thomas Roessler <roessler@guug.de>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 01:50:16 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Why GNU GPL is bad for crypto deployment
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Message-ID: <19980929083209.A18725@sobolev.rhein.de>
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On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 12:36:45AM +0100, Adam Back wrote:

> Which is why companies won't touch GNU license stuff with a barge
> pole.

[....]

> Well, it's your code, and you wrote it, so it's your choice: my
> comments are based on the assumption that the author is more
> interested in crypto deployment than in the GNU license virus as a
> means of promoting the availability of source code.

I have to partially object here:  If code is to be used
commercially, lawyers can ask the copyright holders for a different
license, and they may quite well succeed even if the original
distribution was under GPL.

tlr
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