ASTARO not making sources available

[Markus Hennig]

Hi all,

I have to apologize for the complete wrong answer from our support team.
I corrected this mistake immediately, but unfortunately my email didn't
make it to this list (see email below).

Of course do we have a written offer to send everybody our open source
components on CD and we also have a download section for all open source
components: "http://download.astaro.de/GPL%20Source%20Code/" - not
really difficult to find...

We invest a lot of time, resources and money to support the open source
community, just read careful Haralds blog
(http://gnumonks.org/~laforge/weblog/) or check the "Who wrote 2.6.xx"
sections from LWN: Astaro is almost every time in the top-20, even
sometimes in the top-10.
Astaro hosted last year the Netfilter Workshop
(http://workshop.netfilter.org/2007/) and sponsors it this year again
(http://workshop.netfilter.org/2008/Astaro.html) as we did the last
years.

Besides all the well know software projects we sponsor or contributing
code to, we also support conferences, WIKIs, tools like Firebug or
creative commons projects like VEB FILM Leipzig
(http://www.vebfilm.net/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/lang,en/
).
So its more or less ridiculous to suspect we are not committed to the
Open Source community or violating any of their license. But Armijn you
are right and we will train the support teams for GPL related questions
again. And David, we don't use Busybox, but feel free to contact the
FSF. In the early days we sponsored them too (which is now a big-money
game with fancy logos in categories and sub-categories...).

So if something is still not explained or open, please don't hesitate to
send me an email!

Regards,
Markus



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus Hennig 
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 6:17 PM
> To: dia_tn at yahoo.fr
> Subject: sources for opensource code in astaro firewall 
> 
> Hi Dia,
> 
> looks like there is a minor misunderstanding and 
> communication problem.
> We publish of course all open source parts of our product 
> ASG, including the modification and patches we applied.
> You can download these under "http://download.astaro.de/GPL 
> Source Code/", we will update the file list there within next 
> days for our latest version ASG 7.300.
> 
> We do not publish our own proprietary code, which is for 
> example the WebAdmin or the Middleware. None of them includes 
> Open Source parts or incorporates other software parts with 
> licenses which would require a publishing.
> 
> 
> Hope this helps and clarifies the situation.
> Please do not hesitate to contact me, if you have further questions,
> 
> Markus



Markus Hennig <mhennig at astaro.com> Astaro AG CTO
Telephone: + 49 721 25516 0 
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