sftp client for OpenSSH / Emacs Ange-FTP

[Pekka Savola]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Pekka Savola wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, SOETE Joël wrote:
> > > Trying to find the same thing, I found this:
> > >
> > > http://www.la-samhna.de/hsftp/index.html
> > >
> > > Sincerely, I not yet try but seems very interesting.
> >
> > AFAIK, there are some utils with 'sftp' in their names that have nothing
> > in common with the SSH.COM sftp protocol except that they use ssh
> > as a tunnel.
> >
> > I'd be rather surprised if that one worked with sftp-server.
> >
> > There's an sftp client in SSH.COM's SSH 2.3.0 (which is ~GPL for Linux
> > etc.).  It requires some tweaking.
> >
> Umm... and where is this 'magical' GPL licensing for Linux?  All licensing
> I see is the extremely restrict 'If you use this for anything that even
> SORTA smells like commerical.. you owe us bigtime'.
>
> I'd love to see anything differently.  I even just downloaded the source
> to verify.  Because if sftp was under GPL style licensing then it could be
> folded into the OpenSSH with of course Theo's permission. =)

They announced a new license for 2.3.0, and I somehow associated that
with GPL because they wouldn't charge anything for it on
Linux or *BSD.  At the time time there was talk about the licensing
restrictions wrt. patching.

Of course, GPL is really not about the price tag.

My mistake, sorry.

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