Re: Commercialisation

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia (nkadel_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/25/04


Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 00:40:39 -0500


"Luc Cottyn" <luc@cottyn.net> wrote in message
news:400da12f$0$1115$6c56d894@feed0.news.be.easynet.net...
> Hello
>
> 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?
>
> 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.

Don't if you don't have to. Pete Flugstad is right about adding some extra
*suffix* information being OK, but changing the primary versions and names
of things makes it very difficult for your own users to assess if they have
the appropriate versions of the software, especially for key handling and
configuring newer features like PrivSep.



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