On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 01:55 PM, Ben Reser wrote:

>> I just found a patch by Van Dyke, the makers of SecureCRT (for win32) 
>> for
>> openssh that might be interesting for Mandrake?
>>
>> Patches are applied to this mail.
>
> Can't:
> *           Copyright � 1995-2002 VanDyke Software, Inc.
> *                       All rights reserved.
>
> VanDyke has rather conflicting licensing information in it (the actual
> source file says it's okay to redistribute it.  But requires that you
> add VanDyke's Copyright notice to the openssh documentation.  Of course
> they don't provide the patch to do that for you.

Ugh... ok, I don't like that part at all.

> Considering that openssh is BSD license you can't assume that 
> deritivate
> works are licensed under the same terms.
>
> So at least until vandyke clarifies their license I don't see how we 
> can
> include this.
>
> And that's not even considering the flak from Theo we are likely to 
> get.

Yeah... this is something I'd rather avoid because, inevitably, he'd 
yell directly at me (like usual).  I think he thinks MandrakeSoft == 
Vincent Danen... dunno why.

And this was long before I took over as maintainer for openssh... =)

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