Re: [mod-security-users] Exciting News: ModSecurity Has Been Acquired!

[Ivan R. <iva...@gm...>]

On 9/26/06, Kim Galileo <kim...@ya...> wrote:
>
> I think community involvement becomes difficult because of Apache and GPL
> incomptiblity issues. Let us say you are not with the new company, does
> community and you have legal rights to continue development of mod-security.
> OpenBSD and NetBSD (which is for profit) co-existed because they were
> catering to different user communities, one needs support and othe doesn't.
> There will be less maintenance too,  Apache foundation supports several
> important components community needs like mod-ssl, mod-proxy etc. Exisitng
> mod-security users do they really have legal license to use the product,
> because of this incompatiblity issue. By adopting single license these
> problems can be avoided.

I chose GPLv2 for ModSecurity because I believed it would serve its
needs better. GPLv2 ensures whoever adds to the product must give the
changes back to the community and this is exactly why I like it. I
understand this can be debated but I wouldn't want our email exchange
to turn into a licensing debate. I made my choice a long time ago and
it has nothing to do with Breach Security and the acquisition :)

I am not afraid for ModSecurity in the slightest. It's an open source
product based around a very strong licence. It cannot die if the
community doesn't want it to die.

-- 
Ivan Ristic, Technical Director
Thinking Stone, http://www.thinkingstone.com
ModSecurity: Open source Web Application Firewall