Re: RADIUS 2? (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Sat, 21 Sep 1996 02:25:18 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time cor@xs4all.net shaped the electrons to say...
>So what happens if we have 70 PM30's, 2 dozen isdn office routers,
>couple IRX's but also some USR Robotics quad racks, and some Cisco 5200
>racks. Does the licensing agreement forbid us to use radius 2.0 for
>the USR and Cisco racks?

No - the license requires that you be a registed Livingston customer to
use RADIUS 2.0. Since you use Livingston equipment you can use 2.0, and
also use it with the other boxes.

If you didn't have any Livingston boxes and wanted to use Livingston RADIUS
2.0 exclusively with USR TC racks or something - that would violate the
agreement as you wouldn't be a registed Livingston user.

>Also, our Radius server is heavily modified. I'd say of the original code
>about 30% is left. It's made it several factors faster and more reliable.
>(do you guys ever use something like Purify?). Will the licensing agreement
>forbid us to incorporate new features into our own version?

No. You can make changes to the source all you want. I believe their
will be a restriction on publically distributing the changes made - I think
that is something we need to have a firm policy on to avoid misunderstandings.
I'll talk to the people on this end to see if we can get something
written up on that, maybe on the web.

What it is meant to do is stop other companies from using our server as a
basis for their commercial products, and also to protect the intellectual
property and engineering investment tied up in developing it.

-MZ

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