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 > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html -- Mike Guiterman Snort Community Manager Sourcefire, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (410)423-1930 _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
