Ted Lemon writes:
>
> > Apparently the sources to PGPphone have been released (after many
> > years). See:
>
> According to that message, the license is not an open source license,
> though, so this is unfortunately not very exciting. :'(
Right. However, you are free to download the source code, and you are
free to distribute patches. You just don't have any permission to
distribute the code, or derived versions (e.g. code with patches
applied, or binaries). Unfortunately, this means that we have to rely
on NAI's continued distribution of the code, and users will be limited
to those who can download, patch, and compile the code.
Yes, it would be better if NAI distributed the sources under some sort
of open source license. A number of open source licenses may be found
at http://opensource.org/, not all of them unfriendly to business
interests.
SpeakFreely (http://www.speakfreely.org) is already open source, so it
sets a minimum bar on the restrictions you can expect to be able to
set on the distribution of a freeware encrypting telephone package.
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