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Open-source software developers that move to a closed-source licensing model to help pay their bills can create challenges, but they also offer opportunities for federal agencies, experts say. Federal users who are increasingly reliant on open-source software are paying more attention to those decisions, and they are stepping in to get the outcomes they want.
[Try to find "GPL" or "GNU" or "free software" anywhere in this article. Maybe if the U.S. feds educated themselves better about the GPL, "Congress, the FBI, the Pentagon and the Treasury Department" would not be so terrified that "a foreign company could make one of the government’s primary security tools proprietary and take control of the Snort source code."Snort is GPL'ed, though you might have to dig around the site to discover that, as Snort proclaims itself "open source". It appears that studious use of the term "open source" and avoidance of any mention of the philosophy behind free software contributes to fear and misunderstandings. -- grouch]
True, Snort does not have the GPL license in plain view on the website; imo it should be easy'er to find.
Snort package has a copy of the gpl license, as it should; two open source dowload sites, Sourceforge and Freshmeat, both list Snort with details of the project along with that Snort is gpl licensed. I believe Snort should as Sourceforge and Freshmeat do, make the GPL license available for reading in a location that people to the site for the first time can find.
Jack_: >"Odd article, I don't know what to say about it."
That covers it pretty well. Either the U.S. federal government is overflowing with ignorance about the multitude of open source licenses, or else the article is pointing a worried finger at the wrong reasons for concern.
Those are the only two explanations I can come up with, anyway.
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Snort package has a copy of the gpl license, as it should; two open source dowload sites, Sourceforge and Freshmeat, both list Snort with details of the project along with that Snort is gpl licensed. I believe Snort should as Sourceforge and Freshmeat do, make the GPL license available for reading in a location that people to the site for the first time can find.
Odd article, I don't know what to say about it.