On 03-May-01 Andreas Siegert wrote:
Quoting Kurt Seifried (listuser@seifried.org) on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:47:56AM +0200:
Hi,
looks like I didn't notice that SSH seems to be really commercial now. Is this right? Do I need to pay for it if I am still using it?
There are some exceptions however these are not in the actual license as far as I know, they are PR releases on the ssh.com website. I wouldn't completely trust it. In any event future usage is in question (remember, ssh used to be "free", Tatu sure has changed).
Would you please finally read the license n 2.4.0? It is fully free on Linux and the free BSD systems, here a quote from the LICENSE file:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - In order to install and use the Software, You must obtain one of the following three types of licenses: (1) Non-Commercial Use License, (2) Evaluation for Commercial Use License, or (3) Commercial Use License. To qualify for a Non-Commercial Use License, You must: (1) use the Software solely on a system under the Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, or OpenBSD operating system (whether for commercial or non-commercial use), or 2) use the Software for non-commercial purposes as defined herein and be a Non-Commercial Entity as defined herein, or (3) be an Excluded Contractor as defined herein. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
I do prefer OpenSSH, but i am getting a bit annoyed at your costant slandering of the commercial SSH. There are many points to gripe about, especially their compatibility problems, but at least for the open OSes, it is at least FREE!
You�re right. But in order to supply our customers with ssh/sftp clients for
Win I actually have to pay for the *Windows clients* from ssh.com, simply
because we want to equip our customers with useable and stable client software.
Like mentioned before, there are no Win clients available which could be seen
as serious replacements for the commercial client version from ssh.com (stuff
like Winscp, Putty and so forth - they�re good, but not good enough to be given
to unskilled users). That�s what the raving about commercial versions was/is all
about, not about the server installation (which still is completely free).
Just my 0.02c.
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Boris Lorenz