Re: IPFilter no more?

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?
>