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Re: Sourcefire Tactics - New Licensing
From: Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:53:09 -0600
--On Friday, March 04, 2005 01:55:33 PM -0500 Martin Roesch <roesch () sourcefire com> wrote:
Sourcefire isn't asking you to pay for code, it's not even asking you to pay for rules, what we're saying is that if you are a company that's profiting directly from the quality and timliness of the rules that are generated by the VRT that you contribute back to that from which you benefit. The rules that are under the GPL today will remain under the GPL, so you're not being constrained there. The community rules from the users will remain under the GPL or alternative licenses that the individual authors may propose. The rules that Sourcefire develops at a cost of millions of dollars per year will be available to end users *for free* if they so desire, but for corporations that are taking and giving nothing in return, we ask that they be willing to pay for ongoing access to Sourcefire's brains and resources.
You forgot to finish, Marty.....and if there's anyone who thinks *that* is unreasonable or unfair in some way, well, screw you. :-)
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