RE: Sourcefire Tactics - New Licensing

["Michael Steele" <michaels () winsnort com>]

Peter,
Ok, remember this when Sourcefire forks the source code for Snort. I doubt
that will ever happen, but who is to say what might happen down the road.

Sourcefire is where they are at this point because of the development that
was produced pre-Sourcefire. There was a LOT of development on Snort outside
of Marty, and Sourcefire has built on that development. It would have taken
years longer for Snort to be developed to where it was when Sourcefire was
created.

Sourcefire has placed a LOT of money into developing Snort, and that's a
given, but they are the biggest reapers of profit from Snort. I just heard
there is a 90k IDS solution that Sourcefire is or will be selling.

This is NO big deal. It's just one small step. If people don't really care
and voice their opinions it will leave the door open for further
restrictions. Remember, baby steps first.

Kindest regards, 
Michael...

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net [mailto:snort-users-
> admin () lists sourceforge net] On Behalf Of James Riden
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:44 AM
> To: 'Snort Users Postings'
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Sourcefire Tactics - New Licensing
>
> "Peter J Manis" <pmanis () comcast net> writes:
>
> > I agree.  This is sad.  Essentially, what is happening here is
> > taking the open out of the opensource.  First the rules from
> > Sourcefire, and now they are trying to take Bleeding Snort.  I
> > understand if Sourcefire is upset about a few individuals using
> > their rules, but what business do they have attempting to take
> > Bleeding Snort under their control?  This is clearly a coorporation
> > hoax to monopolize the development of Snort rules, first by
> > licensing the Sourcefire rules, and now trying to get Bleeding Snort
> > to abide by their licenses!  Next will be Snort itself!
>
> I suggest you ask for your money back.
>
> This is not the end of the world; it's precisely what the GPL was
> designed for. Anyone who wants to fork the current sourcecode and
> rulebase may do so, and do their own development.
>
> --
> James Riden / j.riden () massey ac nz / Systems Security Engineer
> Information Technology Services, Massey University, NZ.
> GPG public key available at: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~jriden/
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