onsdagen den 9 oktober 2002 23.04 skrev Vincent Danen: > On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 05:35 PM, Oden Eriksson wrote: > > [snip] > > > >>> I don't really like to tamper with openssh too much. =) > > > > On the other hand... > > > > If Mandrake can't do what ever they please, use what ever patch they > > please > > with this software, it's not free and should be dropped immediately > > from the > > distribution... > > We can do whatever we want with openssh... it's under the BSD license. > That's not the point. > > The point is I don't like to do this. It's fine to patch things for > fixes, proper language translations, etc. But adding features like > this causes other problems... it will bring a lot of bad publicity for > MandrakeSoft because of Theo; he's made many threats in the past and > he's neurotic enough to follow through. For instance, if we do > something Theo really doesn't like, or that Markus doesn't like, any > questions regarding openssh that even faintly mention Mandrake > somewhere in the equation, will get blasted by the openssh developers, > and they'll be referred here with none too kind words. > > I'd rather avoid that sort of thing.
Ahh, I didn't think that far, are they really such a*holes? May I ask what those threats were? > This is something that can be done with an optional build switch so > someone can easily rebuild the srpm for themself with the patch > applied. It's not something I want to make mainstream unless I know > that the openssh authors aren't going to be pricks about it. I prefer > to have as few headaches as possible. Ok. I will fix an conditional switch for this. It would be interesting to hear what they have to say about this as it's a pretty new feature. As I understand it it's as new as of this month. They might not even know about it? -- Regards // Oden Eriksson - Deserve-IT Networks http://d-srv.com Check the "Modules For Apache2" status page at: http://d-srv.com/modules_for_apache2.html
