Snort announced yet another license change. See below:

http://www.snort.org/pub-bin/snortnews.cgi#664

In essence they are rejecting the inherent condition of the GPL that future versions apply at the users discretion, even though their source code says it does apply.

They are also taking the liberty of applying this to all contributed code, Snort_Inline for example:

http://www.inliniac.net/blog/?p=90

I can’t say it any better than Victor does in his blog in the link above. Sourcefire has of course written the majority of the snort code, but certainly not all. What is their concern with GPLv3, and what plans do they have for this code that would be in jeopardy from the license change?

And why do they keep announcing these things on fridays? Expecting it to get missed on the way out the door? :)

What are your thoughts? Anyone have an insight into the licensing issues that might be of concern to Sourcefire?

Matt

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