Request for Clarification: proprietary SSH server from Tectia

[Jon Hood]

Guys, I'm sorry - there was no GPL code contained in the product. The
binaries were a remnant from an open source product that didn't uninstall
properly. Please ignore this.
Thanks,
Jon

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Jon Hood <squinky86 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I received the following email from Tectia and sent them the following
> reply. Please let me know if I'm doing this right.
>
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> To the best of my knowledge, the issue of the GNU General Public License
> (GPL) should be of no concern as you work  with the Tectia evaluation
> software. You will find no information in our documentation regarding the
> GNU GPL as there has never been a requirement for it. GNU is an open-source
> software and you can read all about it in more detail, including GPL and
> GPL-related questions, at  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>
>
>
> In the meantime, however, Jonathan, I will pose your questions/concerns to
> Tectia R&D for any additional information they might be able to provide.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Alan
>
>
> Dear Alan,
>
>
>
> Unfortunately, I will not be able to recommend your software to my company.
> Even if GPL code is contained only in the evaluation version of your
> product, it is still being distributed without a license or source code for
> those components. This is a direct violation of the GPL that you linked to.
> Additionally, the GPL license was not made available to me in your
> documentation. For more information, please see
> http://gpl-violations.org/faq/vendor-faq.html and I encourage your
> software to become compliant with the documentation there. Please join the
> mailing list and ask questions from the friendly developers and legal minds
> available on the mailing list. I also encourage you to read the license that
> you linked to in your reply.
>
>
>
> Sincere thanks for replying to my requests, and I hope to evaluate your
> software again in the future. It worked well for our needs, but I can't
> ethically recommend software that I believe may contain copyright
> violations.
>
>
>
> Jon Hood
>
>
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