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There were other issues back in those days.

MIT was forced to use the RSAREF library which had a non free license.  At 
first they used the RSAREF2 library, but then they were told to use the RSAREF1 
library.  (I diffed the two libraries and determined that the only difference 
was that RSAREF2 had fixed a number of buffer overflows and other security 
flaws.  There were no added features.)  

If I remember correctly, 2.5 had RSAREF2 and 2.6 had RSAREF1.  One of the main 
reasons for the creation of the "International version" was the use of RSAREF.  
(Besides the security issues, it was pretty damn slow.  In the days of the i386 
people cared about speed.)

Now get off my lawn you young wippersnappers!

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Werner Koch
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 4:28 AM
To: Robert J. Hansen
Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
Subject: Re: [Announce] GnuPG's 10th birthday


On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

> I seem to recall PGP 2.3 was distributed under the GNU GPL, but I 
> believe that was the only version that had proper license provenance.

Right.  However the documentation had a paragraph similiar to the one I quoted 
which contradicted the GPL.  I can't remember the details anymore; its too long 
ago since I looked at it.  It was a bit questionable at least.  



Shalom-Salam,

   Werner


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