On 07/07/2009 05:28 AM, Peter Vrabec wrote: > Dear Fedora Legal, > > > I'd like to push fwsnort into Fedora, but I'm afraid there might be > problem with snort TM. > > > http://www.snort.org/legal/snort-licensing/snort-trademark-guidelines > > > I have contacted fwsnort upstream and I was told they didn't have any > approval from Sourcefire Marketing. But there are more projects that use > term snort on freshmeat.net. Snort is released under GPL. fwsnort > doesn't use any VRT licensed Snort rules and fwsnort had probably > existed before snort TM. > > > Could you please help me to clean up this issue. thnx. Well, the existence of others who are violating a registered trademark doesn't make it acceptable, this is the "everyone else is doing heroin, so my use is okay" argument. At a minimum, you'd need to rename it for Fedora so it isn't a clear derivation of "snort". ~spot _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
