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Subject: SSH v2 License --- much less free than v1
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:46:54 +0100
From: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>

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Hi,

As some of you may be aware, ssh v2 was just released.

  See http://slashdot.org/articles/980826/0712245.shtml

Having read the license (which I attach bellow), I'm not inclined to package
it, since I really cannot see many people being able to use it.

I'm also not certain that we are allowed to distribute it in binary form.

Is this something that worries people, or do you think that we should be 
packaging SSH v2 ?

Cheers, Phil.


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