Re: [Snort-users] Licensing

Hi Peter,

The subscription fee does not allow you to redistribute outside your=20
organization, I think it's spelled out in section 2.2 of the VRT=20
license. A license for commercial redistribution is available if=20
you're planning on redistributing as part of a service or product=20
offering. If you're interested in acquiring a commercial=20
redistribution license please contact snort-license@sourcefire.com.

-Marty

On Mar 7, 2005, at 11:18 PM, Peter J Manis wrote:

> Hi Mary,
>
> Just to futher clear things up, the subscription fee includes a=20
> license to redistribute, or they are subscription and license to=20
> redistribute are two different things?
>
> Peter
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Roesch"=20
> <roesch@sourcefire.com>
> To: "Rowland, Krisa W ERDC-ITL-MS Contractor"=20
> <Krisa.W.Rowland@erdc.usace.army.mil>
> Cc: <snort-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 9:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Licensing
>
>
> To lay things out explicitly:
>
> 1) Existing rules distributed from snort.org prior to March 7th will
> remain under the GPL and can be redistributed/downloaded if you
> register (for free).
>
> 2) Community rules developed externally to Sourcefire will be =
available
> under their respective author's licenses as before.
>
> 3) VRT rules developed and QA'd at Sourcefire will be available for
> commercial redistribution if the commercial entity acquires a license
> from Sourcefire. End users (corporate or otherwise) may register and
> receive their rules as usual *or* they may individually subscribe to
> snort.org for a fee to receive rules at the same time Sourcefire
> customers do. If they do not wish to register at all then there will
> be rules updates in Snort point releases every 3-6 months.
>
> In other words, if you want the VRT rules as an end user you do not
> have to pay, you just have to register. If you want to get early
> access to them then you need a for-pay subscription. Open source end
> users (i.e. those that aren't offering products or services that
> redistribute Snort rules as part of the offering) can get the VRT =
rules
> just by registering. Companies that are redistributing the VRT rules
> as part of a product offering or service will need a for-pay license
> from Sourcefire.
>
>
> -Marty
>
>
> On Mar 7, 2005, at 6:07 PM, Rowland, Krisa W ERDC-ITL-MS Contractor
> wrote:
>
>> Ok. I know I haven=92t read all the hoopla and complaining about this=20=

>> new licensing =96 but this means that if we want the VRT rules we =
have=20
>> to pay? Sorry for being slow=85
>>
>>
>>
>> Krisa Rowland
>>
>>
>>
> --=20
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