CURRENT port of OpenSSH for Windows available

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:56:24PM -0700, Darren Moffat wrote:
> >> Which is EXACTLY the Cygwin version of OpenSSH. Unfortunately Mark
> >> has packed it w/o the sources for Cygwin which violates the GPL.
> >
> >Umm, how exactly does that violate the GPL?  The sources just have to be
> >available (upon request, if not to all) for those who have gotten the
> >binaries.  Aren't they?
> 
> But OpenSSH isn't under the GPL license it is under a "BSD style" license
> which doesn't have the requirements of source distribution.
> 
> Are you saying that there is GPL code in this port ?  If so I hope one
> of if has made it back into the OpenSSH core or portable trees otherwise
> there are serious legal issues because you can't do that.

No. Cygwin is under GPL and it's a DLL. OpenSSH is only linked
against Cygwin and remains under BSD, of course. The problem is,
if you create a binary archive with OpenSSH and the Cygwin DLL
you'll have to provide the Cygwin sources to comply with the GPL.
That's all. Mark should simply put a matching Cygwin source archive
onto his site and everything is fine. OpenSSH itself is not concerned
at all.

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Red Hat, Inc.
mailto:vinschen at redhat.com