Re: Snortgoing commercial

[Martin Roesch <roesch () sourcefire com>]

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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