From: take@imasy.or.jp (Hayashi_Tsuyoshi)
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 19:18:30 +0800
To: Dave Roberts <djr@saa-cons.co.uk>
Subject: Re: PGP commercial usage
Message-ID: <199601311439.XAA08161@tasogare.imasy.or.jp>
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At  0:43 PM 96.1.31 +0000, Dave Roberts wrote:
>I have read and reread the documentation that is included with the PGP 
>distribution (although my copy is over a year old now), and am still 
>trying to work out if commercial use of 2.6ui is allowed outside the USA.
>
>Could someone elaborate for me, or perhaps point me to some up to date 
>reference documentation.

Few days ago I found good page for it.

  http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/FAQ.shtml#License

This page said that:

 + Can I use PGP 2.6.3i for commercial purposes?
 + 
 + Yes, you can, but you need to buy a separate license for the IDEA
algorithm used in
 + PGP. (RSA is not patented outside the US, so you don't need a license
for this
 + algorithm.) IDEA licenses can be purchased from Ascom Systec AG in
Switzerland.
 + (The licensing of the IDEA algorithm was formerly administrated by Ascom
Tech, but
 + this responsibility has been transferred to Ascom Systec. Please, do not
contact
 + Ascom Tech about this matter!) The fee is charged on a per-user basis as
follows: 

# Sorry, this is about 2.6.3i, not 2.6ui.

P.S.
Now I'm studying MacPGP...

- Tsuyoshi Hayashi <take@imasy.or.jp>
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