Re: PKP/RSA comments on PGP legality

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From: gerben
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 15:31

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Hopefully, the US Congress will ban software patents altogether *), making  
political issues like the legality of using a cypher at all the only question left.

*) Not much hope, since the text of the GATT treaty does not offer the possibility  
to exclude *anything* from patentability (except in the case of national  
emergencies).

-- 
Gerben Wierda                 Tel. (+31) 35 833539
  "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."
  From the Talmud(?), rephrased in Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland".

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