Re: P0F in Snort?

I don't expect this would be a patent infringement. We'd have to go look
into it, but I'm not worried. Please do consider continuing and
releasing what you're working on.

Anyone from SF around that'd be willing to comment if we're safe
developing something like this, and if it'd be integrated into
mainstream snort if stable and useful?

Matt

tom wrote:
> Quoting Bamm Visscher <bamm.visscher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
>> Devil's advocate here. Another thing to keep in mind is that
>> SourceFire owns a number of patents in regards to RNA technology. They
>> are also being sued by a company over some of the capability within
>> RNA.  Just wanted to bring that up since this is a "dirty" space to
>> play in right now.
>>
> 
> Damn!  I already finished writing the code.  Ah, well.  One more
> orphaned project on the rubbish heap.  I've got dozens of them.
> 
> It seems so wierd to think that you could be sued for writing original
> code.  There is something distinctly "anti-progress" about that.  Is
> anybody on the list living in a country that does not honor software
> copyrights?  I once saw some code that had been developed by programmers
> in philidelphia who were working "under contract" to a firm in Tel Aviv
> to sidestep the US encryption export laws.  Never mind that both firms
> had the same owners.
> 
> jp
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