Gary Buckmaster wrote:
Chris,
The big problem there is that dansguardian
is licensed to be free only for non-commercial use. The same is true
for DCC which is a component of copfilter.
There are alternatives to dansguardian such as squidguard and
urlfilter. Is there an alternative to DCC?
This means that while businesses are
using these tools, they're using them in violation of their license. I
don't know how the authors of pfSense feel about putting license
encumbered packages together.
I think the users are totally unaware of the license encumbered components. However
if there are alternative components to the license encumbered components then the features of the
content filtering in copfilter are what makes it so popular. On the
main website of IPCop it now says that there have been 2.5 million
downloads of it in one year. I do not think that the IPCop developers have measured
to what extent the addons
have popularized the project.
-Gary
Gary Buckmaster wrote:
Chris,
I'm looking at the web page for copfilter
and it's a decent enough looking project, although it seems to be
geared more towards virus and spam filtering for email, and virus
filtering of http traffic. Is that an accurate statement?
Yes that would be an accurate statement. However the biggest issue with
IPcop and addons such as copfilter is that when IpCop is updated is
breaks the addon.
If so, it will not do the same job that
squid+squidGuard is accomplishing.
copfilter has further addons such as dansguardian
.
which has the same function as squidguard.
Also, since copfilter incorporates a few
license-encumbered components (i.e.: DCC) it would not be appropriate
for businesses who want to use pfSense.
I think that it is the features and functions of copfilter that make
it so popular, not necessarily particular components. I notice that its
proponents implement it in businesses rather than home users, so the
content filtering is more popular among business users where as
squidguard, urlfilter and dansguardian seem to be more popular among
home users.
-Gary
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