Re: security tips - Re: [PLUG] serving webpages from home

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 09:49:21PM -0500, Darxus@chaosreigns.com wrote:
> I suggest putty (GPLed windows ssh client, google.com search for it).

<pendantic>
Actually, no, it's not GPL'd.  It's what RMS would describe as a
"simple, permissive, non-copyleft free software license", one step shy
of public domain, actually.  Much more like an MIT/X/BSD (modified)
license than GPL; statement of copyright, disclaimer of warranty,
permission to use, modify, and redistribute, and not much else.  The
PuTTY license is at
<http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/licence.html>.
</pendantic>

I've seen at least one gratis binary-only application based on PuTTY,
WinSCP.  I haven't used it myself, but it seems like it puts an
FTP-client-like frontend on scp.  It's at <http://winscp.vse.cz/>, and
the license (<http://winscp.vse.cz/eng/licence.php>) definitely doesn't
give you the same freedoms as the PuTTY license.

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