OpenSSH Project Now at openssh.com

Anonymous Coward writes "The OpenSSH project now has a central webpage at www.openssh.com. OpenSSH is based on the last free version of Tatu Ylonen's SSH with all patent-encumbered algorithms removed, all known security bugs fixed, new features reintroduced and many other clean-ups."

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Perhaps you should have kept quiet...

[Phil Hands]

no warning:

The package tells you exactly what is going on using the shiny new debconf tool to put a nice dialog box up to ask you if you want to continue, or give you the chance to install ssh-nonfree instead.

Coerced:

As the Debian maintainer of both ssh (OpenSSH) and ssh-nonfree (the non-free ssh) I can tell you that the decision was mine. (I did check that nobody from the OpenSSH team minded)

My decision was based on the fact that Debian does not consider non-free software to be part of the distribution, so if there is a free and a non-free implementation of a package, the free one gets the name because its actually part of the distribution.

I've got nothing against ssh-nonfree (otherwise I wouldn't have maintained a Debian package of it for years) and I really appreciate the fact that Tatu wrote it, and allowed us all to use it. It just happens to be non-free, so the DFSG free alternative gets priority in our case.

I hope that clears things up.

Cheers, Phil.