Re: {R,I[INEW]}TP: free ssh [non-US]

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 09:55 +0100 1999-10-01, Philip Hands wrote:
> James Troup <james@nocrew.org> writes:
> > OpenBSD have started working on the last free SSH (1.2.12 was under a
> > DFSG free license AFAICT[1]), they also, (again AFAICT [I'm going by
> > the CVS commits]), are ripping out the patented algrothims (IDEA,
> > etc.).  Unfortunately, I'm chronically busy with work and haven't had
> > time to look into it, but all the signs look very good (they appear to
> > have added it as part of their base system, for example).
>
> Damn, I thought I knew ssh had been free at one point, but when I
> noticed the non-free license in the late teens, I obviously failed to
> go back far enough to find the free version.
> I'll probably end up calling the new package ssh-free

Note that OpenBSD is also ripping out support for pretty much any 
other other OS as they go,  and using library functions that are 
OpenBSD-specific.
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