Royalties

[Mark O. Aldrich]

On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, pclow wrote:

> Mark O. Aldrich wrote:
> > You cannot commercialize PGP whether you pay Ascom-Tech any royalties or
> > not.  Phil Zimmermann grated an exclusive license to ViaCrypt, Inc. a
> > number of years ago to be the sole commercial version of PGP.  In the mean
> > time, PGP Inc. was formed and has acquired ViaCrypt.  Thus, PGP Inc. now
> > holds the exclusive license on commercial PGP products.
> 
> Even the international version of PGP?
> 

All versions of PGP are owned by PGP Inc.  The international version is
still their product, even if they give it away instead of commercially
sell it.  From what I understand, Ascom Tech requires a license fee if the
product gets sold over in Europe, and I imagine the PGP Inc. will now have
to pay up when they begin to shrink wrap the international version over
there. 

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