On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Deirdre Saoirse wrote:

> No, ssh is NOT gpl. If it were, there could be no commercial versions.
> 
OK.  My bad.  Sorry.

> In any case, I in particular would not trust source RPMs that didn't
> verify exactly the same as the stuff on the ssh master site; the latter is
> the ONLY site I would personally get ssh distros from.
> 
Fair enough.  There are people that I trust to build source rpms, and I
would trust source rpms that were pgp signed by them.  If I do not know I
can trust the packager then I take the same attitude as you.

> On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Mike wrote:
> 
> > I thought it was released under GPL, in which case I thought that the only
> > requirement was that the source was available from the same place.
> > Also, there are source rpms in the same place, which is what I would
> > recommend using.  There is no advantage in downloading the source and
> > compiling it yourself unless you at least look at the source (I do, most
> > people probably don't).
> 

-- 
Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

A tautology is a thing which is tautological.

Reply via email to