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(Fwd) Re: GATT and RSA
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With Rishab's permission today I forward his answer to my query
about GATT's effect on copyright of software for those of you
who may want to know.
Forwarding mail by: [email protected] (Rishab Aiyer Ghosh) on
Sun, 04 Dec 11:59 PM
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Rishab writes to another poster:
> >So GATT is unlikely to affect RSA.
JY asked:
> May I assume that your remarks above indicate that you have
> details of the GATT agreement that would clarify the
following
> general summaries in my local rag, The New York Times (I have
> not been able to obtain a final copy of the agreement):
US software companies benefit because GATT enforces _copyright_
including for software. Not software patents - something
totally different, which is what makes PGP 2.3 illegal in the
US but not so anywhere else.
Rishab
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