FYI: The author responds (RE: Psionic tools future...)

[Craig H. Rowland]

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Hi Doug,

I just posted this message to the honeypots mailing list:

The tools are going to be made available here shortly:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sentrytools/

Cisco has in fact been *very* supportive of keeping the opensource tools
free and available. My time though has been spent on working on the
commercial product and this has made me very slow to do updates on the
freeware. Just to eliminate any speculation on the matter:

1) The software will remain open source and free.
2) The license for the software is being liberalized to use the Common
Public License instead of the restrictive Psionic License.
3) It is I, not Cisco, who has been the speed bump on posting the
changes due to work time constraints.

As you can imagine many people have been asking about the software.
Hopefully this will alleviate some of the concerns. As you could
probably guess, getting acquired uses up a lot of one's time and focus.
This wasn't a deliberate slight at the open source community and the
large numbers of users and contributors to the project.

I'm planning on making the licensing changes and posting the software to
sourceforge by the end of this weekend.

Thanks,

- -- Craig

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas J Hunley [mailto:doug at hunley.homeip.net]
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 11:00 AM
> To: crowland at cisco.com
> Subject: Psionic tools future...
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> Hello Craig:
>  Several people (myself included) are avid users of the
> Psionic tools. However, it seems that since Psionic was
> purchased by Cisco, the tools are no longer available for
> download. Specifically, HostSentry, LogCheck, and PortSentry.
> Several of us would like to know if development of these
> tools has been halted or if they have been "absorbed" by
> Cisco to appear in some other product they offer. In either
> case, we'd like to ask you 2 questions: 1. logcheck is GPL.
> Do you mind if we were to host the 1.1.1 version and open up
> a CVS tree for further development? would you want us to use
> a different name? 2. HostSentry and PortSentry are non-GPL
> and are under a Psionic license. Would you mind giving us
> permission to host them? Would you relicense them to GPL to
> allow us to open a CVS tree for the community to develop
> them? would you want us to rename the projects?
>
> Thanks in advance for your answers and for the wonderfull products.
> - --
> Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778
> Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org
> 	and http://jobs.linux-sxs.org
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