On Wed, Nov 11, 2020, 06:05 Andrey Repin <[email protected]> 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 - [email protected] - 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... > > > -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
