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Date:      Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:51:26 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@iafrica.com>, Mike Thompson <miket@dnai.com>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Gary Gaskell <gaskell@isrc.qut.edu.au>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kerberos vs SSH
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990325104851.483B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <19990325154118.E57330@bitbox.follo.net>

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On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 02:15:25PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 23:41:01 PST, Mike Thompson wrote:
> > > I am currently looking into what the licensing costs would be 
> > > for us to license SSH v2 for our servers.  Does BEST.COM pay
> > > to license SSH v1 or SSH v2 for internal use?
> > 
> > There are no licensing costs involved in using ssh1.
> 
> This is false, for most reasonable definitions of 'use'.
> 
> In particular, the use to which Mike Thompson (the original poster)
> said he would put the software is explicitly covered in the license
> for ssh (COPYING in the main ssh source directory) as needing
> commercial licensing from Data Fellows.

My impression was that a license was needed from RSA to use RSA public key
routines commercially.  The Data Fellows purchase would cover that also, I
believe.

One nice side to using SSH w/kerberos instead of just kerberized utilities
is that tunneling of X programs occurs automatically with ssh/slogin.

Any chance of K5 becoming the default version of kerberos distributed with
FreeBSD sometime? :-)

  Robert N Watson 

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