Tipping Point IDS

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note the presence of gnu bash...

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Chris DiBona <cdibona at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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