Request for Clarification: proprietary SSH server from Tectia

[Jon Hood]

Thank you. I see that they give a hat-tip to the BSD, DES, PCRE, and XFree86
licenses, but even a search for "GPL site:tectia.com" and "GNU site:
tectia.com" don't reveal anything.

-Jon

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Shawn Robinson <serriaromeo at gmail.com>wrote:

> At this link, in the pdf they do acknowledge some open source software.
>
>
> http://productdocs.ssh.com/documents/28/SSHTectiaClientServer_ProductDescription.pdf
>
> it's at the very end before the glossary.
>
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 09:47, Jon Hood <squinky86 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I was evaluating some proprietary SSH servers and came across Tectia's SSH
>> Server:
>> http://www.tectia.com/en.iw3
>>
>> I noticed that no mention is made in any of the licensing about anything
>> GPL-related; however, when I install the server, binaries of GPL programs
>> are available:
>>
>> $ strings bc.exe | grep -i gnu
>>     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>>     GNU General Public License for more details.
>>     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>>
>> There are quite a few more executables covered under the GPL that appear
>> to be distributed in this product. My concern is that I can find no mention
>> of the GPL in any of their documentation. Could I please get a more
>> experienced set of eyes to request an evaluation from them and confirm my
>> findings?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jon
>>
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>
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