Nicolas Baradakis <nbk@sitadelle.com> wrote:
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
We can ask them for a statement about the license terms. However, they have previously expressed interest in putting it into FreeRADIUS, which is GPL'd.
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.
For one, I don't think the concept of public domain exists any more in the U.S. But that's another story. It may be useful to require such a statement, but I think OpenLDAP's license is different (BSD-style), so a notice statement may be more relevant. For us, if the owner of copyrighted code requests that their code be included in the server, that request is based on the knowledge and requirement that the product is GPL'd. Alan DeKok.