From: "James E. Riggs" <venom@kaos.aum.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 94 13:55:31 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: PGP modifications
In-Reply-To: <9407141735.AA11602@fnord.lehman.com>
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On Thu, 14 Jul 1994, Rick Busdiecker wrote:

>     From: Jeff Gostin <jgostin@eternal.pha.pa.us>
>     Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 23:31:38 EST
> 
>          OTOH, we owe it to him to respect his opinion. If he didn't have the
>     guts to create the tool, this conversation would be moot. I say that we
>     should respect his wishes, and not bastardize PGP, if only not to
>     discourage other people to write "risky" software
> 
> Definitely.  While I don't believe that Phil has legal grounds to make
> Tom stop bastardizing PGP, I think that he has every right to protect
> his reputation and proclaim loudly that he considers Tom's
> modifications snake oil, etc.
> 
> I suspect that most people would respect Phil's wishes in this area,
> but the cat's out of the bag as far as legally enforcing those wishes.
> 
> 			Rick
> 

I must say that I agree here.  I don't think that he can stop him from 
making any modifications to PGP, but I think that he can stop him from 
using the name PGP on it.  I think that he has every right to do this.  
PGP is tied very closely with his reputation and that any modifications 
released under the name PGP should be his and his alone.  

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