I'll roll up my comments on a couple of items here and again I'm happy
to answer any follow up questions.
Contributed code: You will of course retain all copyright ownership and
the licensing rights to any code you have contributed.
Commercial Licensing: Today ClamAv is used in a number of commercial
solutions. ClamAV will continue to be licensed under GPL to vendors
that distribute the derivative products under the GPL. The intention is
to make ClamAV available under a commercial license as well.
In this case our (Sourcefire's) track record with Snort speaks for
itself. Sourcefire has never with held or delayed a feature in Snort
from the open source community. Snort releases and Sourcefire commercial
releases are in lock step.
Dennis Peterson wrote:
> David F. Skoll wrote:
>> Mike Guiterman wrote:
>>
>> [some things]
>>
>> Mike, would you care to comment on these remarks from Wayne Jackson,
>> CEO of Sourcefire?
>>
>> After a clean-up of the project's code base, Sourcefire will likely
>> create a new license for third party providers of the technology
>> during the first quarter of 2008.
>>
>> While Sourcefire has promised to continue to distribute versions of
>> ClamAv software that meet the parameters of the open source general
>> product license (GPL), the OEM licensing model will not necessarily
>> adhere to all elements of the GPL, Jackson said. The arrangement fits
>> the same model Sourcefire has pursued with Snort.
>>
>> Reference: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/17/Sourcefire-acquires-open-source-AV-project_2.html
>
> My swag would be that indicates there will be features present in the
> OEM versions that are not included in the GPL version. It's like that
> with Big Brother monitoring software and Snort if memory serves.
>
> Hopefully they won't use the Sun Microsystems view of things where
> Solaris is free but the patches are $400/year. That was a problem when
> the 2007 daylight saving time patches were needed. I doubt I'll be
> installing much more "free" Solaris as a result.
>
> dp
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