Re: Check Point Software Technologies to Acquire Sourcefire

[Murali Raju <protocoljunkie () gmail com>]

I agree. Normally I'm skeptic, but Marty and Sourcefire have continued to
support the true spirit of Open Source unlike others. Congrats!

_Raju

On 10/6/05, Richard Harman <snort () richardharman com> wrote:
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> 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<http://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
> > >
> > >
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