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On Sep 29, 2004, at 11:30 AM, Alan DeKok wrote:
Nour Omar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:My guess is that since it is seperate .so module(dynamically loaded module) that is not part of FreeRADIUS binary, It would not need the same licence as FreeRADIUS but I wanted to make sure that is the case.
No. The module will be linked into the server, and will be part of it. It therefore must be GPL'd.
I don't think this is technically correct. While I agree that he cannot distribute a binary-only modified FreeRadius, there is nothing stopping him from distributing a binary-only dynamically-loaded module (and just the module) under a non-GPL license. For an example of the way this works, see closed source device drivers and the GPL'd Linux kernel.
Jon - -- Jon Moore ISC Networking & Telecommunications University of Pennsylvania
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