In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> igor wrote:
>
>I intend to package up Moxa radius, a fully-featured radius server package.  
>It has some of the features that are not available in any of freely available 
>radius's that debian contains, such as proxy support.  I found it accidentally 
>on the net, and at that point it had no license at all.  I contacted the 
>authers, and convinced them Free Software is The Way (tm).  This is a first 
>one for me, so I am very proud of myself ;-).   You can find it at 
>ftp.moxa.com/drivers/cn2000/radius.2.2.tar.Z .  I am not sure if that one has 
>a new license yet, but here it is:
>
>/* =====================================================================
> * Copyright (c) 1998 Moxa Technologies Corp, LTD.  All rights reserved.
[...]
> * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this
> *    software must display the following acknowledgment:
> *    "This product includes software developed by the Moxa Technologies 
> *    Corp, LTD. for use in the Moxa RADIUS Server (http://www.moxa.com/)."

Urk!  It's the Obnoxious BSD Advertising Clause, back to haunt us.

Including the OBSDAC would make Moxa non-free.  Please educate them
about that, too, and suggest they use an XFree86-like licence rather
than this BSD-like one.

Thanks,

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