Snort's rules are still free for end users to use but commercial
redistribution of rules developed at Sourcefire requires a license
(i.e. if you're a company that ships Snort as part of a product or
service offering you need a commercial redist license if you want to
ship the rules that are developed at Sourcefire). End users who want
to get early access to rules developed at Sourcefire can now subscribe
for a fee.
End users are not required to pay for Snort or Snort rules at all if
they don't want to, there's no real onus on the average Snort user at
all and they can still get and use the rules for free. Companies that
make money on Snort by leveraging Sourcefire's research and development
capabilities are being asked to pay a very fair price to distribute our
rules. Snort's source code remains open and GPL'd and there is no plan
to close it.
Why would anyone's blood be boiling?
-Marty
On Mar 16, 2005, at 3:34 AM, Chris Brown wrote:
I am suprised that there has been very little comment on the changes
over
at www.snort.org , I would have thought that $195 a month for Snort
signatures would have made a few peoples blood boil!
Tuffer
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