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Re: Licensing
From: "Peter J Manis" <pmanis () comcast net>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 23:18:58 -0500
Hi Mary,Just to futher clear things up, the subscription fee includes a license to redistribute, or they are subscription and license to redistribute are two different things?
Peter----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Roesch" <roesch () sourcefire com> To: "Rowland, Krisa W ERDC-ITL-MS Contractor" <Krisa.W.Rowland () erdc usace army mil>
Cc: <snort-users () lists sourceforge net> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 9:53 PM Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Licensing To lay things out explicitly: 1) Existing rules distributed from snort.org prior to March 7th will remain under the GPL and can be redistributed/downloaded if you register (for free). 2) Community rules developed externally to Sourcefire will be available under their respective author's licenses as before. 3) VRT rules developed and QA'd at Sourcefire will be available for commercial redistribution if the commercial entity acquires a license from Sourcefire. End users (corporate or otherwise) may register and receive their rules as usual *or* they may individually subscribe to snort.org for a fee to receive rules at the same time Sourcefire customers do. If they do not wish to register at all then there will be rules updates in Snort point releases every 3-6 months. In other words, if you want the VRT rules as an end user you do not have to pay, you just have to register. If you want to get early access to them then you need a for-pay subscription. Open source end users (i.e. those that aren't offering products or services that redistribute Snort rules as part of the offering) can get the VRT rules just by registering. Companies that are redistributing the VRT rules as part of a product offering or service will need a for-pay license from Sourcefire. -Marty On Mar 7, 2005, at 6:07 PM, Rowland, Krisa W ERDC-ITL-MS Contractor wrote:
Ok. I know I haven’t read all the hoopla and complaining about this new licensing – but this means that if we want the VRT rules we have to pay? Sorry for being slow…Krisa Rowland
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- Licensing Rowland, Krisa W ERDC-ITL-MS Contractor (Mar 07)
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- Re: Licensing Matt Kettler (Mar 07)
- Re: Licensing Peter J Manis (Mar 07)
- Re: Licensing Matt Kettler (Mar 08)
- Re: Licensing Bob Walder (Mar 08)
- Re: Licensing Matt Kettler (Mar 07)
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- Re: Licensing Martin Roesch (Mar 07)
- Re: Licensing Peter J Manis (Mar 07)
- Re: Licensing Martin Roesch (Mar 08)
- Re: Licensing Florin Andrei (Mar 07)
- RE: Licensing Lee Clemens (Mar 07)
- Re: Licensing Martin Roesch (Mar 08)
- Re: Licensing Peter J Manis (Mar 07)
- Re: Licensing Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez (Mar 08)
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- RE: Licensing SRH-Lists (Mar 08)
- RE: Licensing Snort (Mar 08)