Re: rssh.el interactions with ange-ftp/efs

Yes, that's true--but that's not enough to be free software. So we don't use ssh in the GNU Project, and I would not want to encourage others to use it. The GPLed LSH implementation of the ssh protocols does not look like it will be ready for non-combatant use for some time. It may take time, but we have to wait. The purpose of GNU Emacs, and the GNU system as a whole, is to give users freedom; it would not do to get caught up in the details and forget the ultimate purpose. If you wish LSH would get done sooner, how about volunteering to help (those of you not in the US)? In the interim having efs use the GPLed ftpsshd I don't think I have heard of ftpsshd before. Can you tell me what it does? Can it be used on its own, or does it depend on ssh? Is it better to cut off the nose to spite the face of ssh-1.x being freely distributed and used without the GPL I would not reject a program merely because its license is not the GPL. If it is free software using some other license, we can still recommend it. However, ssh is not free software at all.