libfreeradius vs libradius
Alan DeKok
aland at deployingradius.com
Thu Jul 26 15:11:18 CEST 2012
Arvind Gupta wrote:
> I am new for RADIUS server authentication and looking to implement a
> RADIUS client. I found that there are many RADIUS client library
> available and most popular are libradius and libfreeradius.
> figuring out that which one is best and what is pros and cons of each
> one. Any information related to this will be more helpful to me.
The freeradius-client code is BSD licensed, but I don't like the API.
The libfreeradius-radius code is LGPL'd. It's much better, but it
does have the LGPL.
There is a pressing need for a BSD licensed RADIUS library. Too many
vendors "roll their own". And get pretty much everything wrong.
Alan DeKok.
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