Debian, EAP, and the OpenSSL and GPL incompatibility

[Alan DeKok]

Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Alan DeKok posted this very promising report of the re-licensing work he
> had been doing in January:
> http://lists.cistron.nl/pipermail/freeradius-devel/2009-January/012726.html

  I've contacted a number of people.  No one has objected.

> If I understand Alan's post correctly, the license issue was
> unintentional in the first place.  If that is correct, then it is too
> bad that it keeps a number of users from using the code (yes, there is
> nothing preventing them from building FreeRADIUS themselves, but most
> users won't do that)

  An alternative would be to distribute freeradius + openssl binaries
from freeradius.org.  Or, to re-arrange the code so that any OpenSSL
dependence is re-arranged to avoid the license issue.

  Alan DeKok