Re: Commercialisation

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_dodgy.net.au)
Date: 01/21/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:20:25 +0000 (UTC)

In article <400da12f$0$1115$6c56d894@feed0.news.be.easynet.net>,
Luc Cottyn <luc@cottyn.net> wrote:
>We're going to sell our product, based on slackware linux.
>It runs several daemons, also OPENSSH.
>
>We would like to know, if it is possible to change the OPENSSH version
>in the source to 'ourproduct ssh daemon 1.0' for example, and sell it.
>We can name it as ourproduct-sshd-1.0 for example. Is that allowed?

Short answer: probably yes, read the LICENSE file and ask your lawyer.

What you're describing is pretty much what Sun did when they forked
OpenSSH into SunSSH, see:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=finfodoc%2F50465

>What should we do more? I would like to have some answers on this. I'm
>not good in English, i hope the anyone can help us.

It would probably be a good idea to acknowledge that it's based on
OpenSSH. 

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