Can't touch this, ugly Americans! (PGP License file)

First off, congratulations and thanks to Stale and everyone else for
scanning in the source to PGP5.0i (http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/)

However, theres an ugly problem with the license.
(http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/pgp50i-license.txt)

In Section 1.c.(d), permission is given to port PGP to other
platforms.  However, permission to distribute those ports is
explicitly denied.

Could the license be modified to allow people who port the software to
redisctribute ports?  There is enough FUD about using PGP without PGP,
Inc contributing to that by overly tight licensing.

Adam



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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
					               -Hume

Sorry about the subject; I had misread the license file originally,
thought it said PGP wouldn't take ports from folks in the US; what is
says is that if you're outside the US, you have to assert that you got
no help from PGP employees.

Anyone got a BSDI port working? (I'm hitting errors in lib/pgp/keydb)

Adam


-- 
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
					               -Hume

On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Adam Shostack wrote:

> First off, congratulations and thanks to Stale and everyone else for
> scanning in the source to PGP5.0i (http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/)
> 
> However, theres an ugly problem with the license.
> (http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/pgp50i-license.txt)
> 
> In Section 1.c.(d), permission is given to port PGP to other
> platforms.  However, permission to distribute those ports is
> explicitly denied.
> 
> Could the license be modified to allow people who port the software to
> redisctribute ports?  There is enough FUD about using PGP without PGP,
> Inc contributing to that by overly tight licensing.
> 
> Adam

Or what do you do about bugs?  It mentions corrections, but not who to
send them to.

On DEC Alpha/axp under Linux, include/pgpUsuals.h has a test for a big
ULONG_MAX that defines HAVE64 as 1 on 64 bit machines like the alpha

But the very next test has #ifndef HAVE64 where there is a typedef for
word64, which won't happen.  But if HAVE64 is 1, in pgpMD5.c it will
really want word64 defined or it will bomb. 

Something is wrong, but if I copy the typedef, it seems to get further
(compiling as we speak - the old UDBs aren't the fastest alphas).

Now, where should I send this information or the patch?

--- reply to tzeruch - at - ceddec - dot - com ---

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In <97Aug11.145941edt.32258@brickwall.ceddec.com>, on 08/11/97 
   at 03:00 PM, nospam-seesignature@ceddec.com said:

>On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Adam Shostack wrote:

>> First off, congratulations and thanks to Stale and everyone else for
>> scanning in the source to PGP5.0i (http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/)
>> 
>> However, theres an ugly problem with the license.
>> (http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/pgp50i-license.txt)
>> 
>> In Section 1.c.(d), permission is given to port PGP to other
>> platforms.  However, permission to distribute those ports is
>> explicitly denied.
>> 
>> Could the license be modified to allow people who port the software to
>> redisctribute ports?  There is enough FUD about using PGP without PGP,
>> Inc contributing to that by overly tight licensing.
>> 
>> Adam

>Or what do you do about bugs?  It mentions corrections, but not who to
>send them to.

>On DEC Alpha/axp under Linux, include/pgpUsuals.h has a test for a big
>ULONG_MAX that defines HAVE64 as 1 on 64 bit machines like the alpha

>But the very next test has #ifndef HAVE64 where there is a typedef for
>word64, which won't happen.  But if HAVE64 is 1, in pgpMD5.c it will
>really want word64 defined or it will bomb. 

>Something is wrong, but if I copy the typedef, it seems to get further
>(compiling as we speak - the old UDBs aren't the fastest alphas).

>Now, where should I send this information or the patch?

Here is a patch I received for the pgpUsuals.h file:


There is a bug in src/lib/pgp/include/pgpUsuals.h on 64-bit machines. The
appended patch seems to cure the problem --- the word64 type needs to be
defined, even when the machine has a native 64-bit type.


*** src/lib/pgp/include/pgpUsuals.h~    Sat Aug  9 22:44:58 1997 ---
src/lib/pgp/include/pgpUsuals.h     Mon Aug 11 11:03:38 1997
***************
*** 52,57 ****
- --- 52,58 ----
  #if ULONG_MAX == 0xfffffffffffffffful
  typedef ulong bnword64;
  #define BNWORD64 bnword64
+ typedef ulong word64;
  #define HAVE64 1
  #endif
  #endif



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