Licence question, was: Newbie: General Questions About Installation

[Alan DeKok]

Stefan.Neis at t-online.de wrote:
> Given that the authors of the software are aware of the problem,
> wouldn't it be simply possible to modify the licence accordingly?

  Other projects have a specific grant saying "GPL, but linking with
OpenSSL is OK".  We can do the same.

> How do companies distributing products based on FreeRADIUS handle
> this? That does seem like a problem to me.

  They mostly ignore it, because the developers have indicated it's OK.

  We can add a specific grant to the license terms.  I'll continue
this discussion on freeradius-devel.

  Alan DeKok.