RedHat forks OpenSSH?

[Theo de Raadt]

> >>Apart from the potential legal issues (even if are just some litigious
> >>bastards suing people for fun/profit instead of real ones) surrounding
> >>said algorithms,
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Precisely what legal issues would that be?
> >  
> >
> The DVD CCA's belief that there is "legal 'trade secret' protection for 
> CSS".

There is no legal basis for what you are saying.

> 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.

There is no legal basis for what you are saying.  None.

I recommend you remove the ARC4 cipher from your machines, if you
believe so.

> >If you don't like what we write, you can run something else...
> >  
> >
> Or, it can be forked, which it appears Red Hat is doing, albeit in a 
> very impolite fashion.

The way they are doing it, their users no longer get any support.