From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 94 11:07:43 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: (Fwd) Re: GATT and RSA
Message-ID: <199412051911.OAA05274@bb.hks.net>
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With Rishab's permission today I forward his answer to my query 
about GATT's effect on copyright of software for those of you 
who may want to know.



Forwarding mail by: rishab@dxm.ernet.in (Rishab Aiyer Ghosh) on 
Sun, 04 Dec 11:59 PM
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Rishab writes to another poster:

> >So GATT is unlikely to affect RSA.


JY asked:

> May I assume that your remarks above indicate that you have 
> details of the GATT agreement that would clarify the 
following 
> general summaries in my local rag, The New York Times (I have 

> not been able to obtain a final copy of the agreement):


US software companies benefit because GATT enforces _copyright_ 
including  for software. Not software patents - something 
totally different, which is  what makes PGP 2.3 illegal in the 
US but not so anywhere else.

Rishab


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