Yeah, that license agreement was forced on us. We were grateful they let us give away all the source code.

From gnu@toad.com Wed Nov 19 00:32:10 1997 Delivery-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 00:32:11 -0500 Return-Path: gnu@toad.com Received: from research.att.com (research-clone.research.att.com [135.207.30.100]) by amontillado.research.att.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA27270 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 00:32:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from toad.com ([140.174.2.1]) by research-clone; Wed Nov 19 00:30:14 EST 1997 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by toad.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA02158; Tue, 18 Nov 1997 21:30:06 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199711190530.VAA02158@toad.com> X-Authentication-Warning: toad.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: cypherpunks@toad.com, rubin@research.att.com, gnu@toad.com Subject: AT&T Research "Crowds" -- Perl web anonymity proxy -- needs users Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 21:30:05 -0800 From: John Gilmore Status: R

It has a screwy "non-commercial use only, AT&T gets everything, you get nothing" license, but otherwise it looks interesting.

John

From: Avi Rubin

John,

You may remember that at Crypto, I described the Crowds system to you. The system is now robust and up and running, and we have ported it to windows and unix platforms, so just about anyone should be able to use it. In fact, if there is such a thing as Perl for macintosh, I'm sure it would work on that platform too.

We are very interested in getting more users of our system. As it is intended to provide privacy to web users, I thought that perhaps it is something that you and EFF would be interested in. Do you think you could put a link to the Crowds page on the EFF web site? Anything else you can do to help increase the usage would be great, because our system has the property that the more poeple use it, the more secure it is. Let me know if you have any questions.

The Crowds page is: http://www.research.att.com/projects/crowds

Thanks, Avi

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