propose: `cypherpunks license' (Re: Wanted: Twofish source code) (fwd)

[Jim Choate]

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> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 01:04:20 +0100
> From: Adam Back <aba at dcs.ex.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: propose: `cypherpunks license' (Re: Wanted: Twofish source code)

> If your aim is to maximise crypto deployment, use BSD or some other
> relatively free distribution license other than GNU, so that we can
> more rapidly write and deploy crypto software to undermine the power
> of the state.

With the proviso that the original author looses all access to profits from
that code, effectively doing the R&D for untold numbers of companies without
compensation or even recognition (they can claim it's all theirs at that
point because they don't have to release the source).


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