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In-Reply-To: <19980827113954.A11893@oneinsane.net> from "Ron 'The Insane One' Rosson" at "Aug 27, 1998 11:39:54 am"
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Grrr, I just went through the license. Sucks.
Btw, I was under impression that 1.26 has a fix for the insertion attack...

Ron 'The Insane One' Rosson writes:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 07:32:42PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 27 Aug 1998 09:21:38 MST, "Ron 'The Insane One' Rosson" wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there a reason why we dont have a port of the ver 2.x
> > > ssh.
> > 
> > It may have something to do with the software not being freely
> > distributable. This is from the LICENSE document in the tarball:
> > 
> > | THERE IS NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND FOR THIS SOFTWARE. THIS SOFTWARE IS
> > | FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY.
> > |
> > | Please contact Data Fellows <http://www.datafellows.com/> for
> > | commercial licensing.
> > 
> > The document goes on to wrap non-commercial use up quite tightly,
> > including the prohibition for use in administration of educational
> > systems. You should probably look at the file yourself to be sure you
> > qualify for a license.
> 
> Thanx for showing my ignorance. I failed to dig that deep into it. My
> apologies for that. 
> 
> After this post I am going to bear down and read the license. The thing that
> gets me is that the previous versions before it have always been 'freely 
> distributable'<sp not sure>. This is starting to smell like the same thing
> that happened with Xfree. I could be wrong. If anyone has nessus installed
> on their system and ssh also you will pick up on the possibility of an 
> insecure ssh. Again I could e wrong and jumping in the wrong direction
> but it kinda rattled my cage.
> 
> > 
> > > Sorry for the cross psot but theis came to my attention from running
> > > some tests on my own machines.
> > 
> > Your problem, not ours, eh? :-)
> > 
> NP..
> TIA
> Ron
> 
> -- 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Ron Rosson              ... and a UNIX user said ...
> The InSaNe One                    rm -rf *
> insane@oneinsane.net      and all was null and void
> --------------------------------------------------------
> It's so nice to be insane, nobody asks you to explain.
> 

-- dima

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