Darren,
Maybe consider how SNORT does things? SNORT is open source, Sourcefire
is pay for product...I do believe Sourcefire does own the intellectual
tech these days...if that is the sticking point, I understand.
Thank you for all your efforts over the years,
Joe
Jim Klimov wrote:
2010-11-04 8:11, Darren Reed wrote:
Oracle has no problems with me doing it but would own all of the
intellectual property (i.e copyright) for all of the work that I
would do.
*I* have a problem with that given that I would be doing it on my
time and it would be me handing out freebies to a very wealthy
man/company.
And, if that's not a secret, can you shed some light on such question
as how did it work with Sun?
They did not claim any copyright on *your* work, and simply forked an
ipfilter (like anyone else can) to which they might have such rights?
And on the opposite, can't you maintain IPFilter as a part of your
paid job - albeit IP (to these patches) would now belong to Oracle? Or
would that possibly threaten the open-source project? They can't
change the license to code that existed and was in the open before you
even worked for Sun, right?
