-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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: rishab@dxm.ernet.in (Rishab Aiyer Ghosh) on Sun, 04 Dec 11:59 PM - ------------------- Rishab writes to another poster:

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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 - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBLuNl3ioZzwIn1bdtAQG1eQF9FoWSiCdVoG7zUMnwD8oy1aCrDx+88UZY wtW29fP6+mLWl3pqC0smBebiVLmSRzme =Ph6r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----