Does Avenda use freeradius?

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Thu Aug 7 19:36:28 CEST 2008


paul smith wrote:
> I've installed it and looked on the disk, all the config files are
> freeradius.

  Nice!

> Does this include any modules that are written for freeradius? 

  Yes.  They use the API from the server core, which is GPL'd.

> I'd think running external scripts is OK as these are not compiled
> against or linked to the freeradius code, but what about modules? Don't
> these require compilation, would this mean that if you write modules for
> freeradius and sell the solution you need to provide the source for the
> modules?

  Yes.

  If they've added features such as PEAPv2 and EAP-Fast, that code would
likely fall under the terms of the GPL.  If they don't agree, then they
are not following the terms of the FreeRADIUS license.

  Alan DeKok.



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