Need Help

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Fri Apr 11 22:17:27 CEST 2008


On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 02:47:40PM +0100, Debabrata Das wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Currently we are using GnuPG 1.4.7 which is under GPL V2 on HP-UX ,but we came to know that there is a security vulnerability on GnuPG 1.4.8 & earlier version.Since Gnupg 1.4.9 is under GPL V3 & we don't want to move to  product under GPL v3.Can you please tell us if it is  permissible to back port  all the changes  made to GnuPg 1.4.9 on to Gnupg 1.4.7.

The recent bug only applies to 1.4.8 and 2.0.8.  It does not apply to
1.4.7 or any earlier version.  There is no need to backport any
patches.

David



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