This package was debianized by Philip Hands on 31 Oct 1999 (with help from Dan Brosemer ) It was downloaded from here: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/security/openssh/openssh-2.3.0p1.tar.gz worldwide mirrors are listed here: http://www.openssh.com/ftp.html The Debian specific parts of the package are mostly taken from the original ssh package, which has since been renamed as ssh-nonfree. The Debian patch is distributed under the terms of the GPL, which you can find in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. The upstream source for this package is a combination of the ssh branch that is being maintained by the OpenBSD team (starting from the last version of SSH that was distributed under a free license), and porting work by Damien Miller to get it working on Linux. Other people also contributed to this, and are credited in /usr/share/doc/ssh/README. Copyright: Code in helper.[ch] is Copyright Internet Business Solutions and is released under a X11-style license (see source file for details). (A)RC4 code in rc4.[ch] is Copyright Damien Miller. It too is under a X11-style license (see source file for details). make-ssh-known-hosts is Copyright Tero Kivinen , and is distributed under the GPL (see source file for details). The copyright for the original SSH version follows. It has been modified with [comments] to reflect the changes that the OpenBSD folks have made: