No, ssh is NOT gpl. If it were, there could be no commercial versions.
"See the file COPYING for distribution conditions. To summarize, you
can use this software freely for non-commercial purposes. However,
this software cannot be sold or used for directly revenue-generating
purposes without licensing. THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THIS PROGRAM."
In any case, I in particular would not trust source RPMs that didn't
verify exactly the same as the stuff on the ssh master site; the latter is
the ONLY site I would personally get ssh distros from.
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Mike wrote:
> I thought it was released under GPL, in which case I thought that the only
> requirement was that the source was available from the same place.
> Also, there are source rpms in the same place, which is what I would
> recommend using. There is no advantage in downloading the source and
> compiling it yourself unless you at least look at the source (I do, most
> people probably don't).
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