>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tyler MacDonald >Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:45 AM >To: openssl-users@openssl.org >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Licenses... > > >Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> An end user can download freeradius and postgresql and openssl and >> build all of them and link them together, without violating >any licensing >> clauses. > > End users aren't expected to know how to use build tools or even >have them installed on their system.
That is an arrogant attitude that a lot of Linux distributors have, and it's rediculous for those tools. Are you seriously arguing that someone who is an administrator of a network (pray tell, who else would possibly be setting up a RADIUS server) and who is using open source to set him or herself up a free authentication server, should be completely ignorant of how to compile a program on an open source OS? An OS I might point out that most likely this adminstrator is going to be supporting. listen to yourself, your speaking as though software should be distributed and sold exactly like Windows server products are: aimed at the administrators who are just pretending to be adminstrators, and who are not real professionals. Thank goodness that FreeBSD has the ports collection, this kind of attitude of everything binary only is sickening. I can hardly tell if I'm on an open source mailing list or a Microsoft product mailing list. One of the main strengths of using open source is that since it's open you can modify it and fix bugs - even the FSF and I agree on this - and you want to turn back the clock and have everyone dependent on binaries some CDrom distributor created? Ted ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
