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Re: Licensing
From: "Peter J Manis" <pmanis () comcast net>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:11:48 -0500
I think you misinterpreted Marty's email. Sourcefire doesnt allow you to bundle VRT rules in a commercial product no matter if you have a subscription or not, at least thats what the license says. You can bundle the bleeding snort and communtiy rules only, which are free anyway; no subscription needed. I was gonna get a subscription to the VRT rules, but man, did you see the prices? $200/month, $500/quarter, or $1800/year is pretty steep for an individual. What hurts for firms that rely on snort but cant afford to pay for this subsciption (nonprofits or anybody) are the possible legal implications. Technically, now if you are using snort and don't pay for the early updates and your machines get compromised and cause damage to someone else, you can technically by sued by the damaged party for not doing all you could have done to protect your machines (purchase the updates). This will provide Sourcefire with a pretty nice income stream, if people actually purchase the subscriptions. Realize that the subscirption has nothing to do with the license. Whether or not you pay for the subscription, the license stands. The reason for the subscription is for revenues, not to prohibit anyone from bundling the rules with their commercial product.
Peter----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Kettler" <mkettler () evi-inc com> To: "Rowland, Krisa W ERDC-ITL-MS Contractor" <Krisa.W.Rowland () erdc usace army mil>; <snort-users () lists sourceforge net>
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 8:03 PM Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Licensing At 06:07 PM 3/7/2005, 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.
Only if you want them as fast as the normal Sourcefire customers get them, or if you want to rebundle them in a commercial product. See Marty's post with Message ID: 45cfecfcfb7c474d58e180f5d9344bcd () sourcefire com AFAIK the VRT rules have always been available to SF customers before the OSS side gets them. Fresher updates from VRT has been a selling point of SF boxes for years. Now you can opt to subscribe to the faster updates for a fee without having to buy a SF box.. Sounds good to me. As for the rebundlers, well, I'd hate to compete with someone who's simply sponging all my resources for free... They're also still free to use all the snort code, even SF's contributions to the snort code, and the community/bleeding rules in their commercial products. I think they're being quite reasonable, as the changes only apply to the VRT rules. I'm pleased they're willing to give us their VRT rules for free at all. Of course, if they ever did anything as unlikely as to try to subvert the code, I'd show up on their doorstep to deliver a letter berating them for the act, but I doubt Marty and co. will ever do such a thing. SF may not be perfect people, but they seem to be Good People, and their continued contributions to a free Snort are solid evidence of that. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=ick _______________________________________________ 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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