[ILUG] Re: Dan's Guardian licensing

[Ivan Griffin]

Licensing issues notwithstanding, has anyone tried SquidGuard?

How does it compare to Dan's Guardian?

I've run Dan's Guardian successfully (somewhat) on an NSLU2 and it has 
worked well.  I'm assuming both DG and SG use the same blacklist file 
formats etc?

One feature I need is the ability to allow a teenager a daily quota of 
net time, so this is something I hacked into my copy of DG. 


Cheers,
Ivan


Niall O Broin wrote:
> On 27 Jan 2008, at 13:00, FRLinux wrote:
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>> On Jan 27, 2008 12:53 PM, Conor Wynne <mariconor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Now I need to add some kids surfing protection, without installing
>>> proxy servers etc.
>>> Any recomendations?
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>> I don't see how you could achieve that without installing some kind of
>> proxy even transparent. Might want to look into dansguardian which is
>> free for home users. (http://dansguardian.org/)
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> Dans Guardian is free as in freedom and beer - it's under the GPL v. 
> 2. However, he has an interesting twist, in that he says that 
> commercial users may download the software ONCE from his website to 
> try it, but they may not repeatedly download it from there, to get 
> updates etc. without paying him for commercial support. It's an 
> interesting approach.
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> However, he also says under  "DansGuardian 2 - re-licensing"
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> As the copyright holder, I am entitled to release DansGuardian 2 under 
> any licence that I choose. I have chosen to release DansGuardian 2 to 
> most people under the GPL version 2.
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> All fine and dandy, but once he licenses it to anybody under the GPL 
> v2, those people can then give a copy of it to whomever they choose 
> under the terms of the license, so it's a touch odd.
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