Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 14:24:48 -0500 From: Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OpenSSH could be faster...then why don't they path it?? Message-ID: <20110207142448.51007694@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim2h9LJ-Fat800CEwDSB%2Bdjy=%2BS-TTpAhUzAadF@mail.gmail.com> References: <12dfaeab98c.2320661712861783787.-8492260798816855817@zoho.com> <20110206084227.639b10af.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <AANLkTim2h9LJ-Fat800CEwDSB%2Bdjy=%2BS-TTpAhUzAadF@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 11:12:45 -0800 David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> articulated: > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> > wrote: > > Also, I'm having trouble understanding how people like that get > > grants to do work like that. On the one hand, they obviously know > > enough about cryptography to make improvements. On the other hand, > > they can't seem to get a grip on the fact that the code will need > > to have a license before anyone can grab it and incorporate it. I > > can't find anywhere on that page where it tells me what terms I am > > allowed to use those patches under. > > This seems to be a big problem with academia in general. I almost > never see a piece of code associated with a research paper that has a > coherent license attached to it. Often there's no license at all. I > don't know if this is ignorance or if there are bureaucratic hurdles > at work here. It's possible it's the latter, since universities often > want to profit off of licensing the research that's done on their > sites. A university or any business for that matter certainly has the right to profit from any research or other work done on a given project if such research or work were done using the university's or business's resources. -- Jerry ✌ FreeBSD.user@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ If you think things can't get worse it's probably only because you lack sufficient imagination.
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