Regarding openssh 8.1p1-1 access

[Sudhanshu Bhutani]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 06:05 Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru> wrote:

> Greetings, Sudhanshu Bhutani!
>
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 6:14 PM Sudhanshu Bhutani wrote:
>
> >> Thank you Brian and Mike. We will see if cygwin time machine owners can
> >> help us.
> >> http://www.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html
> >>
> >> I will try contacting - doctor@fruitbat.org - PETER CASTRO for any
> help.
> >>
>
> > One more approach - i was thinking was - can we package/include the
> > complete cygwin already [which already has older openssh version in bin
> > folder] installed folder to our tool exe without any modification?
> > Does it involve any violations for Cygwin GPLv3? Do we need to include
> > source code as well? Or can re-distributing an already created cygwin
> > folder can be done with freedom without any issues?
>
> You can provide a private mirror of your own as suggested, which would be a
> more future-proof way, but really you should investigate the cause of the
> failing SSH behavior and fix THAT.
> I suspect the fix would be way easier than setting up and maintaining a
> whole
> mirror.
>
>
> Thanks for your reply, we are going to retire our platform that uses ssh
> client of old times in next 4 months, which is not supporting updated
> ciphers/updated in openssh 8.2 versions. As cygwin is only supporting
> updated binaries from openssh and not listing older versions, hence the
> issue is appearing on the platform where old ssh client is deployed.
> Unfortunately, the platform lives with customer and we dont have any way to
> update obsolete platform. Hence, i was thinking for work around on this
> platform for next 4-6 months, to re-distribute already installed cygwin
> folder to customer from which our tool can use older ssh client. Does it
> involve gplv3 violations or any legal challenge? Appreciate your response.
>
>
> --
> With best regards,
> Andrey Repin
> Wednesday, November 11, 2020 13:54:50
>
> Sorry for my terrible english...
>
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