Re: open source vs. GPL

[Loyal A Moses <loyalmoses () mac com>]

It's classic foolery with the use of the words "open source".

Snort today is a product that you can fork, and go sell if you like as  
long as you adhere to the GPL license.

Snort tomorrow (version 3) is not going to allow you to fork and go  
sell should you wish, because Sourcefire is changing it's licensing,  
which arguably they actually can't do with the current GPL'd snort.  
Thus the reason why Marty has stated that they have developed version  
3 will 100% non-contributed code. Which is an amazing task, that I  
would love to have seen.

On Apr 14, 2009, at 2:36 PM, Christopher Jacob wrote:

> Did I miss a memo? When was it announced that Snort 3 would not be  
> open source?
>
> ~chris
>
> ...sent from the road...
>
> On Apr 14, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Loyal A Moses <loyalmoses () mac com> wrote:
>
> > Snort is open source, until version 3. But that is a whole other  
> > argument.
> >
> > On Apr 14, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Joel Esler wrote:
> >
> > > No one is taking a vote, we just said, "if we had a vote in  
> > > it..."  I'd rather take the code out of the IDS/IPS and put it  
> > > into an output module.  One that is maintained well (as Shawn said).
> > >
> > > Snort is an open source program, I don't see harm in discussion on  
> > > Snort's own mailing lists do you?
> > >
> > > J
> > >
> > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Loyal A Moses  
> > > <loyalmoses () mac com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Is Sourcefire limited on development skill or man power?
> > >
> > > It makes no sense at all to remove one of the most common facilities
> > > in use by snort users because it is "too complex".
> > >
> > > In the end, you'll do what you are going to do regardless of the
> > > community -- we've seen it before. But don't use "complexity" and
> > > "bugs" as the excuse.
> > >
> > > Sourcefire is a publicly traded company -- Is it smart to be taking
> > > votes on product development from a mailing list? I wouldn't think  
> > > so.
> > >
> > > Loyal.
> > >
> > > On Apr 14, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Jason Brvenik wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have an ulterior motive and it is simple.
> > > >
> > > > Many of the bugs and issues over time with snort have been in  
> > > output
> > > > plugins. Make one well supported, tested, unified method  
> > > designed for
> > > > best performance and while doing so it improves the  
> > > supportability and
> > > > maintainability of the code base.
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Loyal A Moses  
> > > <loyalmoses () mac com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >> My vote is to provide as many output options as possible, to help
> > > >> keep
> > > >> snort used as a tool.
> > > >>
> > > >> The argument of code complexity being a good reason to remove  
> > > output
> > > >> facilities is only valid if the code is written poorly and not
> > > >> modular. This wheel doesn't need re-invented and this  
> > > conversation is
> > > >> kind of silly, unless there is ulterior motives for actually  
> > > wanting
> > > >> to remove this support.
> > > >>
> > > >> Loyal.
> > > >>
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