On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 18:13 +0100, Ahmed Mohombe wrote:
>   > http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshtools: sftp
> > LGPL - though I dont know a bit about this library and dont know if I 
> > would have success with it. Again, if one knows another package ...
> I'm using sshtools and it's simply good.
> I'm using the client as well as the daemon. The client is much simpler 
> to use than the JCraft/JSync. I would even suggest to change VFS's Sftp 
> use of JSync to sshtools/j2ssh.

I've also used sshtools, but would *not* recommend using it, and
certainly not recommend migrating to it from any current package.

The sshtools project was originally released as open-source, but the
main developers/maintainers then essentially abandoned the open-source
version, and took the code private (see 3sp.com). In particular, new
releases of the library that implements the ssh protocol can be found
here:
 http://3sp.com/showMaverick.do

The last cvs commit to the sshtools sourceforge project occurred on 26th
of November 2003 according to the "sshtools-cvs" mailing list on the
sourceforge site.

While the last open-source release is reasonably stable, there are still
bugs and missing pieces of functionality. I can't remember off-hand what
they are now, but I did use sshtools quite extensively on a project a
few years ago. It was, at the time, the best alternative but is
definitely neither complete nor maintained.

Please note that I don't mean any criticism of the 3sp (formerly
sshtools) coders. They have every right to sell their code if they want.
And they still *do* nicely release some code as open-source; just not
the base ssh protocol implementation.

In addition, the LGPL license is not currently regarded as being
compatible with the Apache ASF license; no LGPL code can be referenced
directly from any apache jakarta project.

Regards,

Simon


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