I've been reading my mail regularly (both during vacation and the
holidays -- call me crazy, but it's better than coming back to work
on 1/3/96 and having to slog through 3000+ mail messages, trust me!) :-)
> >Can pieces of the Livingston and/or merit.edu code be used
> >in a commercial product?
>
> No, read the copyright in the code. Anyone is welcome to modify or
> mutilate our code - but the end result may not be used in a commericial
> product. You'd have to give it away. Notice that Ascend's RADIUS is
> based directly on our code, they can't sell it because of that.
Right on! This stuff is what I call "freely re-distributable" and not
"in the public domain" -- I'm sure the lawyers love this stuff... :-)
We have been toying with the idea of formally supporting Merit RADIUS
(for a fee) to help fund the on-going development. We have been thinking
along the lines of the way the guys at Cygnus support the FSF/GNU software.
We have nothing firmly in mind, just some ideas. The low cost support
or service may be just a mailing list. A higher cost option might
include full-blown support and/or custom development. Heck, if there
is enough interest we might have another consortium on our hands like
the GATED stuff!
If anyone is interested in this (or thinks their company might) send a
note to John Vollbrecht (jrv@merit.edu) and copy me. If there enough
interest, that may convince John to go ahead with this...
Have a Happy New Year guys!
Regards,
web...
-- William Bulley, N8NXN Senior Systems Research Programmer Merit Network Inc. Domain: web@merit.edu 4251 Plymouth Road MaBell: (313) 764-9993 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105-2785 Fax: (313) 747-3185