[kwlug-disc] Windows to support SSH?

B. S. bs27975 at yahoo.ca
Wed Jun 3 23:25:54 EDT 2015


Right, but that's my point. The license isn't "if you use our stuff you must GPL all of your own proprietary stuff". (GPL) Not being that, means the GPL "GPL or die" doesn't apply.


----- Original Message -----
> From: Nick Guenther <nguenthe at uwaterloo.ca>
> To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org>
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 6:00 PM
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Windows to support SSH?
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> 
> 
> On June 3, 2015 5:17:55 PM EDT, "B. S." <bs27975 at yahoo.ca> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> It wouldn't surprise me that the only reason ssh (ssl, actually?) is
>> even possible within a proprietary provided environment is the not
>> exactly 'GPL or die' licensing availability within ssl. At least as 
> of
>> the last time I looked at it.
> 
> OpenSSH is a subproject of OpenBSD, and they are very BSD-or-die, and are pretty 
> happy when companies spinoff on their code since usually it means money and 
> hardware come back to them.





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