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... =) -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx - source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD: 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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