On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 05:35 PM, Oden Eriksson wrote:
> [snip] > >>> I don't really like to tamper with openssh too much. =) > > On the other hand... > > If Mandrake can't do what ever they please, use what ever patch they > please > with this software, it's not free and should be dropped immediately > from the > distribution... We can do whatever we want with openssh... it's under the BSD license. That's not the point. The point is I don't like to do this. It's fine to patch things for fixes, proper language translations, etc. But adding features like this causes other problems... it will bring a lot of bad publicity for MandrakeSoft because of Theo; he's made many threats in the past and he's neurotic enough to follow through. For instance, if we do something Theo really doesn't like, or that Markus doesn't like, any questions regarding openssh that even faintly mention Mandrake somewhere in the equation, will get blasted by the openssh developers, and they'll be referred here with none too kind words. I'd rather avoid that sort of thing. This is something that can be done with an optional build switch so someone can easily rebuild the srpm for themself with the patch applied. It's not something I want to make mainstream unless I know that the openssh authors aren't going to be pricks about it. I prefer to have as few headaches as possible. -- 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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