On Tuesday 27 August 2002 12:17, Joey Hess wrote: > > So, they took the DES code from the ssh 1.2.26 source code (note that > that version of ssh was non-free as a whole; openbsd chose an earlier > version to fork). They rewrote it in java, but it is still presumably a > derivative work. > > I think they're wrong that "original code is hence nowadays under a > stricter license": instead the license of whatever version of the code was > originally used is the one mindterm would inherit as a derivative work. I > downloaded ssh 1.2.16, and found the following license in des.c: >
I agree. If this was not the case how could groups like OpenBSD fork older, free versions of software? How could you have the right to package and upload MindTerm?
