1.4.7 packages for OS X

Benjamin Donnachie benjamin at py-soft.co.uk
Thu Mar 8 10:13:26 CET 2007


Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> I don't see any real difference between the two, really.  If it's not
> legal to distribute the single binary with IDEA, then it's not legal to
> distribute the module.  And going the module way, you wind up getting a
> large number of support requests saying "I downloaded the module, but I
> still can't read IDEA traffic", since people tend not to be all that
> familiar with editing gpg.conf.

Put simply, the module route ensures that any patent / copyright issues
are firmly the users "problem".  As I understand it, the licence is not
 compatible with the GPL and therefore should not be distributed with GnuPG.

Ben



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