Bug#1000495: openssh: drop the advertisement clause in BSD license
Colin Watson <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 01:50:01PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Niels gave his explicit permission to drop clause 3, the "advertising" clause, from his code. > This restores the GPL compatibility. > > Request if the same can be updated in this package. > > References: > * https://github.com/pyca/bcrypt/pull/170 > * https://github.com/pyca/bcrypt/files/3081054/Blowfish-cypher-license-change.pdf Regardless of what permission Niels has given, I can't unilaterally change it in Debian's OpenSSH packaging; it needs to be updated upstream first. Please file a bug at bugzilla.mindrot.org about this and mark this bug as forwarded (I don't think it makes sense for me to be in the middle here).