From: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 20:13:45 -0700 (PDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Royalties
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At 7:32 PM -0400 10/15/96, Mark O. Aldrich wrote:

>You cannot commercialize PGP whether you pay Ascom-Tech any royalties or
>not.  Phil Zimmermann grated an exclusive license to ViaCrypt, Inc. a
>number of years ago to be the sole commercial version of PGP.  In the mean
>time, PGP Inc. was formed and has acquired ViaCrypt.  Thus, PGP Inc. now
>holds the exclusive license on commercial PGP products.  Just by chance,
>Phil Zimmermann is the CEO of PGP Inc.

It seems a bit strange that PGP Inc. is so fastidious about enforcing
intellectual property claims, given the treatment of RSA Data Security
Inc.'s similar property claims a few years ago.

In other words, I don't worry for one nanosecond about "infringing" on PGP
Inc.'s claimed property rights.

Nothing personal.

--Tim May

"The government announcement is disastrous," said Jim Bidzos,.."We warned IBM
that the National Security Agency would try to twist their technology."
[NYT, 1996-10-02]
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed.
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