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The Grumpy Editor's guide to SSH serversThe Grumpy Editor's guide to SSH serversPosted Jun 22, 2006 23:22 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to SSH servers by dd9jn Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to SSH servers
Uhm.. actually I dont think ssh.com was ever GPL'd. They took the last version that had a BSD like licesne and worked from there.
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The Grumpy Editor's guide to SSH servers Posted Jun 23, 2006 7:15 UTC (Fri) by dd9jn (subscriber, #4459) [Link] ssh 1.2.12 is the version OpenSSH was based on. It included for big integer arithmetics a copy of the GMP 1.3.2 - that version of the GMP (from 1993) is under the GPL. The FSF later relicensed the GMP under the LGPL but this is not the version included and used by that and all earlier ssh versions. Thus the rules of the GPL apply to these versions of ssh.
The Grumpy Editor's guide to SSH servers Posted Jun 29, 2006 7:48 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link] Just because a GPL library was included doesn't make SSH GPL too ... it just means the SSH licence must be GPL-compatible (which is true of BSD).
So It's quite likely the SSH code was BSD, the library was GPL, and hence the combination was GPL.
In which case, there was no need to "rewrite all the GPL'd SSH code" because there wasn't any GPL'd SSH code to rewrite! :-)
Cheers,
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