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Re: Check Point Software Technologies to Acquire Sourcefire
From: Richard Harman <snort () richardharman com>
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 06:55:02 -0400
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The good thing is that Snort is GPL. If CheckPoint/Sourcefire decides to take the current code base and relicense it, we've still got what's been previously released under the GPL. You can't take back licensing something under the GPL, that's why it's been called "viral". Push come to shove, Snort could be forked from the current GPL codebase into a new project. It's happened before in other situations. SourceFire is a good company, and I don't think we've got anything to worry about. carlopmart () gmail com wrote:
I think that this is a bad news. I known CheckPoint (I take working with them arround 6 years with CheckPoint products) and I think that snort stopped being GPL/free in one or two years maximum .... i repeat: bad notice for GNU community. Sorry for my bad english. Jennifer Steffens wrote:Hi Everyone, We are very excited to announce that Check Point has signed an agreement to acquire Sourcefire. We understand that this announcement affects not only Sourcefire but the community as well. We want to be sure to put everyone's mind at ease that Snort is now and will continue to be free to end-users. We will continue to develop and distribute the Snort engine under the GPL, improve and document the program to stay on the cutting edge and expand the snort.org web site. The community continues, as always, to be important to us as a group of people who use the code pervasively throughout the entire Internet, report on problems and make suggestions and contributions to the project. Check Point is very excited about continuing Sourcefire’s involvement with the open source community! Read a message from Marty Roesch, Snort creator, to the community at http://www.snort.org/about_snort/msg_from_marty/mr_100605.html. Regards, Jennifer -- Jennifer Steffens Director, Product Management - Snort Sourcefire, Inc ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=ort-users
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Current thread:
- Check Point Software Technologies to Acquire Sourcefire Jennifer Steffens (Oct 06)
- Re: Check Point Software Technologies to Acquire Sourcefire carlopmart () gmail com (Oct 06)
- Re: Check Point Software Technologies to Acquire Sourcefire Richard Harman (Oct 06)
- Re: Check Point Software Technologies to Acquire Sourcefire Murali Raju (Oct 06)
- Re: Check Point Software Technologies to Acquire Sourcefire Theodore Stout (Oct 06)
- Re: Check Point Software Technologies to Acquire Sourcefire Richard Harman (Oct 06)
- Re: Check Point Software Technologies to Acquire Sourcefire Joe S (Oct 06)
- Re: Check Point Software Technologies to Acquire Sourcefire Theodore Stout (Oct 06)
- Re: Check Point Software Technologies to Acquire Sourcefire carlopmart () gmail com (Oct 06)