1994-09-18 - RC4 Legal Issues

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From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1994-09-18 00:19:54 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 17 Sep 94 17:19:54 PDT

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From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 94 17:19:54 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: RC4 Legal Issues
In-Reply-To: <9409151814.AA05183@snark.imsi.com>
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   Ah, but that does make some sense. You see, Stac bought MS-DOS from
   Microsoft, and had to adhere to Microsoft's shrink wrap agreement.

Whether or not a shrink wrap agreement is valid is a further issue
here as well.  Taking something apart that lots of people have is, or
at least should be, a fair use.

Eric

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• 1994-09-15 (Wed, 14 Sep 94 23:24:12 PDT) - RC4 Legal Issues - “Patrick G. Bridges” <bridges@cs.arizona.edu>
  • 1994-09-15 (Wed, 14 Sep 94 23:44:47 PDT) - Re: RC4 Legal Issues - Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
    • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 07:47:04 PDT) - RC4 Legal Issues - hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
  • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 00:55:12 PDT) - Re: RC4 Legal Issues - Andrew Brown <a.brown@nexor.co.uk>
    • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 06:36:48 PDT) - Re: RC4 Legal Issues - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
  • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 07:34:16 PDT) - RC4 Legal Issues - hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
    • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 11:06:11 PDT) - Re: RC4 Legal Issues - Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
      • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 11:18:24 PDT) - Re: RC4 Legal Issues - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
        • 1994-09-18 (Sat, 17 Sep 94 17:19:54 PDT) - RC4 Legal Issues - hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)