Re: [Sheflug] another surprisingly basic question

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Will" == Will Newton <will [at] misconception.org.uk> writes:

    Will> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

    >> I take it this is not a Red-Hat-distributed RPM?  There's no
    >> good reason for this if it is RH.

    Will> ssh is only available as a contrib. I think it has something
    Will> to do with licenses.

US export-type licenses, perhaps.  With Debian you have to get it off
the international server (importing to the US is OK, but not
vice-versa, although they seem to have very much come to their senses
recently).

    Will> Why they don't ship openssh is a mystery.

Openssh doesn't have a great reputation with the people I know, but
none of them being to hand, I don't recally what.

But if I'm right about the US "munitions" issue, that would apply to
openssh too.

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