Scott Ullrich wrote:
Last I checked Dans Guardian was 500$ for a commercial license. If
it comes down to it, the community can always pitch in and buy a
license. I've spoken with someone from Dans Guardian in the past and
they seemed very willing to help out.
Scott
On 10/26/05, chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
-----Original Message-----
From: chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 9:05 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion] Re: Content Filtering
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
I know that most of the business proponents seem to be interested in copfilter
for the virus and spam filtering. IPCop is the only distro to offer this as an
Open source solution. Albeit an addon which breaks every time IPCop is
upgraded. The copfilter download page states it has had 3309 downloads in four
weeks.
Chris
