On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Matt Wilson wrote:
> So now, for the good news. Beginning with Red Hat Linux 6.1, all our
> packages are GPG signed. Red Hat Linux purchased in the US includes
> GPG, mutt with GPG hooks, a GUI frontend to GPG (called gpgp), and
> the 128 bit crypto version of Netscape Communicator.
Very cool news. Two questions:
a) is ssh (or lsh, if you find ssh's license distasteful; it's not really
cooked yet, but it's progressing...) in there? ;-)
b) how did you do this without a GPL violation? Since you're restricting
redistribution (not your own fault, obviously), and since you've
probably had to patch a couple of those (and GPG at the very least
isn't available from Red Hat in a non-restricted form), isn't this a
violation of the letter of the GPL? I'm not a lawyer, though, and this
is their area.
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