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Shrew Soft

Shrew Soft Inc develops the Shrew Soft VPN Client, an IPsec remote-access VPN client for Windows, Linux and BSD. The Windows client has a free Standard edition and a paid Professional edition, and the Linux/BSD version is distributed under an OSI-approved open-source licence.

Licensing at a Glance

  • Free tier
  • Open source

  1. The Windows VPN Client comes in Standard and Professional editions; the Standard edition has no trial limits, nag screens or bundled software and is free for both personal and commercial use.[1]

  2. The Professional edition installs with a 14-day evaluation period, after which a client licence must be purchased from the Shrew Soft Shop to continue using it.[2]

  3. The Shrew Soft Shop sells VPN Client Pro for Windows in packs from 1 to 250 licences, each including one year of updates.[3]

  4. The VPN Client for Linux and BSD is distributed under an OSI-approved open-source licence and hosted in a public Subversion repository.[4]

  5. Version 2.2.1 (June 2013) was the first release to offer both Standard and Professional editions.[5]

Products

References

  1. Shrew Soft Inc : SOFTWARE · shrew.net · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. Shrew Soft Inc : SOFTWARE · shrew.net · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. Shrew Soft Inc : SHOP · shrew.net · retrieved 2026-09-27
  4. Shrew Soft Inc : SOFTWARE · shrew.net · retrieved 2026-09-27
  5. Shrew Soft Inc : RECENT NEWS · shrew.net · retrieved 2026-09-27
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