Anne Carasik wrote:
> At 01:39 PM 11/3/99 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >i believe the clients mentioned above have source code generally
> >available.
>
> Maybe. Check with the authors of the programs first.
"Source code generally available" doesn't tell the whole story. Mindterm
is GPLed, I think (yay!) and TTSSH is currently released under the Perl
Artistic license, but AFAIK these are the only open source Windows
clients, until someone ports OpenSSH (is OpenSSH in the FAQ yet?).
> >it doesn't look like fissh is generally available yet, and it appears
> >that development is in the u.s. -- anyone have any information about
> >this?
>
> Yeah, the developers are highly entertaining. My assumptions are
> they're waiting for the RSA patent to expire before they release their
> product. Then again, I could be totally wrong.
The basic RSA patent has already expired, if I'm not mistaken. However,
RSA's nice little thicket of incremental improvement patents isn't going
to go away within any useful timeframe, and so the legal situation is
going to remain murky.
('Course, they could just use a crypto library which allows RSAREF to be
plugged in.)
> >for non-us users, is the vandyke client a legal option? i seem to
> >recall that it isn't, but i'd love to be proven wrong here.
>
> Why wouldn't it be? They've licensed all the algorithms they need to...
Export regulations. OK, non-US users could legally use a copy if someone
else illegally exported it for them, but the vendor certainly isn't going
to sell one to someone living overseas ... unless they get a license from
the men in black, in which case I wouldn't trust the product.
Rob
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[Robert O'Callahan http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~roc 6th year CMU CS PhD student
"I have seen the burden God has laid on men. He has made everything
beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet
they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end."
--- Ecclesiastes 3:10-11]
