Re: OpenSSH minor licensing bug
We'll get right on this. You know we consider this serious shit.
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> Subject: OpenSSH minor licensing bug
> From: David Turner <novalis@novalis.org>
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> I downloaded OpenSSH from:
> ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-3.5p1.tar.gz
>
> It has the following copyright notice for crc32.c.
>
>
> * COPYRIGHT (C) 1986 Gary S. Brown. You may use this program, or
> * code or tables extracted from it, as desired without restriction.
>
> Notice that this doesn't allow distribution (this is, for the OpenBSD
> folks, the converse problem of IPFilter).
>
> Without the comments, that file would probably be uncopyrightable,
> because it's too short and standard. But the comments are longer and
> more expressive.
>
> Suggested solutions:
> 1. Ask Gary S. Brown to relicense. I see a professor at VT by that
> name, who might be the author of this code.
> 2. Replace crc32.c with another version (this is trivial).
>
>
> --
> -Dave Turner Stalk Me: 617 441 0668
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