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Re: [rootshell] Security Bulletin #25

  • From: Joe Shaw
  • Date: Mon Nov 02 17:51:08 1998 
Well, seeing how 2.0 is actually a commercial product and supposedly
re-written, I can see why they'd want to sell it.  If you want to run ssh
and don't want to pay for it, you're stuck with the 1.x version.  Those
that can pay do, and those that don't whine for some reason.  It's not
like you couldn't take the source to 1.2.26 and alter it now, is it? 

Regards,
Joseph Shaw        - [email protected]
NetAdmin/Security  - Insync Internet Services
Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am."

On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, C. Harald Koch wrote:

> Interesting.
> 
> SSH 2.0 has a more restrictive software license than 1.2.26. The paranoid
> among us would wonder whether this was a deliberate attempt to convince
> people to upgrade to 2.0, incidentally forcing many of them to pay for
> the new license.