[2688] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: don't criticize PGP?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sameer Parekh)
Wed May 13 15:48:41 1998
Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 11:24:15 -0700
To: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Sameer Parekh <sameer@c2.net>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199805130128.VAA27713@postal.research.att.com>
At 06:28 PM 5/12/98 , Steve Bellovin wrote:
>I was browsing the PGP Web page. If you try to buy "PGP for Personal
>Privacy: WIN32 with RSA" -- and I didn't check any other versions --
>you're told that the following conditions apply:
>
> 1.The product can not be rented,loaned or leased - You are the
> sole owner of the product.
>
> 2.The customer shall not disclose the results of any benchmark
> test to any third party without Network Associates' prior
> written approval.
>
> 3.The customer will not publish reviews of the product without
> prior consent from Network Associates.
>
#2 and #3 are very standard license clauses for software. Not at all
surprising.
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