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Date:      Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:38:50 -0400
From:      "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, "Gregory P. Smith" <greg@nas.nasa.gov>
Cc:        Igor Roshchin <igor@physics.uiuc.edu>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ssh protocol [was: Interesting problem: chowning files sent via FTP]
Message-ID:  <9904141738.ZM4166@beatrice.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>  "Re: ssh protocol [was: Interesting problem: chowning files sent via FTP]" (Apr 12,  5:13pm)
References:  <Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>  <Your message of "Mon  12 Apr 1999 13:28:39 MDT." <4.2.0.32.19990412132649.043b7350@localhost>  <4.2.0.32.19990412152634.00ce0bb0@localhost>  <4.2.0.32.19990412160742.00c35dc0@localhost>

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On Apr 12,  5:13pm, Brett Glass (possibly) wrote:
> Berkeley licensing would also allow cryptographers to review the code,
> but would have the advantage that people could incorporate it not
> just as a library but as an integral part of a product.

Umm... Berkeley licensing means that people can review the _original_
code. It doesn't mean that people can review the code that is actually 
used in the product.

> Also, Richard Stallman has pretty much decreed that the LGPL is
> history as far as FSF and "GNU" projects are concerned.
> They'll use the GPL on their libraries in an attempt to force
> companies to give up their work. This will backfire, of course,
> and we'll wind up with incompatible implementations.

I agree that this qualifies as stupid.

	-Allen

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