Thanks for the clearing that up, again ;). One more question. Are there
any plans to change the requirements for registration i.e. pay money or
will registration still be free.
BP
Jennifer Steffens wrote:
That is a great question and I am glad you asked. Rules will continue to
be distributed in the same fashion as before. To clarify, since there
still seems to be confusion, there are two types of rules available on
snort.org - VRT Certified and Community. VRT Certified rules are
distributed as follows:
* Subscribers receive rulesets in real-time as they are released
* Registered users receive rulesets after a 5 day delay
* Unregistered users receive access to the latest ruleset at the time of
each Snort point release (2.4, 2.5, etc).
These rules are always distributed under the VRT Certified Rules
License, regardless of the timing of the release. The Community ruleset
is distributed under the GPL and is freely available to all users.
Hope this clears things up.
Cheers,
Jennifer
Eric J. Bowser wrote:
What does this mean for rules?
Will a GPL'd rulebase still be available with each point release of the
snort engine?
~Eric
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 07:32 -0400, 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 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 Sourcefireâ??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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