Re: DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE RADIUS 2.0 SOURCE CODE!

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Mon, 13 Jan 1997 19:08:22 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Stephen Diercouff wrote:

> The point is that radius 2.0 source code is *only* available to owners of
> Livingston products -- Livingston do not want other implementors of
> radius-based products to continue to develop their products at Livingston's
> expense. By prohibiting restribution of the code, and restricting initial
> acquisition of the code to registered users, they can control it to a degree.
> It's their code. It's their license terms. It's no big deal.

This doesn't really make any sense to me. If Livingston thinks Ascend et
al don't already have radius 2.0 source (assuming they want it), they're
sadly mistaken. I think they may just want to keep radiusd 2.0 out of the
hands of customers using only other companies' products.

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