PGP 2.6 legal_kludge
Joseph Block
jpb at gate.net
Mon Jul 4 07:34:04 PDT 1994
Re:
> > Also, concerning the PGP 2.3a/2.6/2.6ui controversy, is the only "problem"
> > with 2.6 the fact that after 9/1/94 it will start reporting an incompatible
> > version number that will make its output unreadable by older versions? If
> > so, and if source code is available, why couldn't the date checking routine
> > be located in the source code and simply commented out, then the whole
> > thing recompiled?
So what stops someone from patching 2.3? Since 2.3 is already allegedly in
violation, why not just make it compatible with 2.6?
jpb at gate.net
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