Date: 02 Nov 1999 12:16:27 +0200 From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, kris@hub.freebsd.org, security@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.ort Subject: Re: OpenSSH patches Message-ID: <861za95hc4.fsf@not.demophon.com> In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp's message of "2 Nov 1999 08:14:26 %2B0200" References: <23974.941523196@critter.freebsd.dk.newsgate.clinet.fi>
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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> writes: > In message <4789.941498013@localhost>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > > >In today's environment, ssh is far more useful than telnet or rlogin, > >yet we bundle both. > > But if we cannot put it on the CD anyway, what is the point of using > the weaker OpenSSH rather than "the real thing" ? The latest versions of the real thing have license restrictions. Versions 1.2.x where x > 15 (IIRC) have a restriction prohibiting commercial use with no definition of what "commercial use" is. ssh2 also has this restriction, with a *very* strict definition of commercial use... BTW: Why is OpenSSH "weaker"? I haven't looked at it, but the primary changes that have occurred between 1.2.15 and 1.2.>20 are bug fixes and a couple of minor protocol changes, which I understood have been incorporated into OpenSSH (as long as the changes aren't copied verbatim from later "official" versions, there should be no copyright issues). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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