rlm_sqlippool IPR (was: Automatic report from sources (radiusd) between 13.09.2005 - 14.09.2005 GMT)

[Peter Nixon]

On Thursday 15 September 2005 12:31, Nicolas Baradakis wrote:
> > =====================================================
> > Combined list of identical log entries
> > =====================================================
> > Description:
> > Add new SQL IPPool module to tree. Config files to follow
> > shortly. The module appears to have been worked on my a number of
> > people. Most recent version is thanks to Ruslan A Dautkhanov.
>
> Thanks for adding this module, I think it can be useful in a number
> of cases. However, I didn't see any licence information in the files.
>
> Perhaps I'm asking for obvious things because I'm not an expert in
> legal issues. If this is a module of FreeRADIUS, I think it must be
> under GPL, but the only information I found in the sources is this
> line:
>
> Copyright 2002  Globe.Net Communications Limited
>
> It's unclear for me whether it is a problem with the intellectual
> property rights. For example, the OpenLDAP project requires that
> a contribution includes a notice from the author.

Yep. It is a very usefull module. We are actually in the process of 
rewriting half of it so that it only needs one copy of itself to server 
all IP Pools. That should make it scale linearly and mean that FeeRADIUS' 
config files do not need to be touched to add a new pool. (No reload)

Cheers

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