Hi Noel,
Here's what I remember about Secure Shell history:
OpenSSH is under the BSD license (free for all use).
SSH Secure Shell is licensed as free for non-commercial use (universities,
non-profits organizations) and commercial use needed to be licensed.
F-Secure licenses the UNIX Secure Shell server from SSH Communications Security,
and writes their own licenses.
Before early this year, SSH Communications Security and F-Secure had an
exclusive deal where only F-Secure could sell Secure Shell. That has changed,
and now SSH Communications Security sells their own Secure Shell version.
Before this year, F-Secure controlled the licensing for all Secure Shell
releases from SSH Communications Security.
Arrrgghh, this needs to go into the FAQ--there's too much confusion as it
is :(
-Anne
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On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:32:37PM -0400, Noel L Yap wrote:
> I understand that OpenSSH is free so long it's not used in commercial products.
> Is the SSH protocol free as well (ie would I have to pay any royalty fees if I
> were to make my own commercial implementation)?
>
> How are the code bases for OpenSSH, SSH Communications, and F-Secure related?
>
> Thanks,
> Noel
>
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