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Re: Mark Mitchell as C++ co-maintainer
- To: Chip Salzenberg <chip at perlsupport dot com>
- Subject: Re: Mark Mitchell as C++ co-maintainer
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:45:44 -0400
- Cc: "Paul D. Smith" <psmith at baynetworks dot com>, Zack Weinberg <zack at rabi dot columbia dot edu>, alex dot buell at tahallah dot demon dot co dot uk, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
>>>>> Chip Salzenberg writes:
Chip> According to Paul D. Smith:
>> Unfortunately ssh's licensing is such that it isn't acceptable for
>> installation on the GNU systems.
Chip> Before BSD was free, I suppose gnu.org ran on... what? Air?
Chip> Sometimes there are compelling reasons to use a non-free program.
The problem with using SSH is not SSH's license, but SSH's own use
of GMP covered by the LGPL. The commercial version of SSH continues to use
the GNU MP library, but the distributors do not follow the requirements of
the LGPL. It would look very strange for the FSF to use software that not
only is not free but flaunts the FSF's own license.
David