Tipping Point IDS

[Chris DiBona]

It is worth pointing out htat sometimes people include language like
that as a generic cya, or to point people to the existence of bsd or
apache code on a machine. Many, many, many firewall, server and
appliance vendors use bsd derivatives or some bsd code in thier work.

While I'm not a big fan of this kind of language, it does serve a
purpose. One might make an excellent argument that if you have bsd,
mit or apache 2 code, you don't need to note it anywhere but in the
license in the filesystem that you are using it, but will include
language like this to placate a feeling of cya for the lawyers or in
my case, the happiness in pointing out that you use open source.

Chris

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:05 AM, ard <ard-gpl at kwaak.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:20:24AM +0200, Christian Thieltges wrote:
>> ...is this a regular way not to point to the GPL? Because for me these ids-boxes run linux:)
> <snip>
>> What do you say? thx in advance for any answer...
>
> To be honoust: I haven't seen a(n embedded) linux device without a
> /proc. Especially for IDS you need something bigger, so I expect a
> /proc to be there.
>
> It might be confusing, but there are a lot of OS's out there that
> look and feel like a restricted kind of linux. Usually it is
> called BSD, but there is also vxworks etc. ...
> BSD was mainly used in nokia firewalls with checkpoint
> firewalling software installed. (A nokia firewall is just
> another very expensive PC).
>
> Anyway: if you can't cat /proc/version, you have to do a lot of
> work to convince me it does run linux :-).
>
> As for the licensing notice legals, IANAL...
>
> Regards,
> Ard van Breemen
>
>



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