RedHat forks OpenSSH?

[Stephen Frost]

* Sten Drescher (stend at sten.org) wrote:
> The DVD CCA's belief that there is "legal 'trade secret' protection for 
> CSS".  http://www.dvdcca.org/faq.html  While the OpenBSD project may not 
> be an attractive target for the DVD CCA, Red Hat's lawyers may believe 
> that they could be.  Even if the DVD CCA is wrong and you are right, it 
> could still be expensive, both in legal fees and in lost sales, for Red 
> Hat to argue the point in court.

Over a broken and uninteresting cipher, I'm not suprised.  In fact, I
expect Debian will very likely also remove it.

> Or, it can be forked, which it appears Red Hat is doing, albeit in a 
> very impolite fashion.

Impolite is the implication that RedHat is forking OpenSSH because
they're prudently removing specific files which are definitely of a
questionable legal status.

	Stephen
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