Re: Licensing

[Martin Roesch <roesch () sourcefire com>]

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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