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Re: Mark Mitchell as C++ co-maintainer
- To: psmith at baynetworks dot com
- Subject: Re: Mark Mitchell as C++ co-maintainer
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at Synopsys dot COM>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 99 16:56:28 PDT
- Cc: martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de, abel at bfr dot co dot il, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
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> %% "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
>
> >> > The problem with using SSH is not SSH's license, but SSH's own
> >> > use of GMP covered by the LGPL....
> mvl> I don't think it is. When I asked, they offered to provide me with the
> mvl> sources of GNU MP. What other requirement are they violating?
>
> This is probably off-topic, but they must provide the application in a
> form that lets you modify the LGPL'd library and use the application
> with the modified version.
Actually the SSH people committed a far worse offense: they tried to
pretend that GNU MP was their own code: they took it, edited it a bit
and put their own copyright on it. And then they were caught.
See http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=385027617
and http://lwn.net/1998/0903/ssh2f.html