[Bro] License

Robin Sommer robin at icir.org
Mon Aug 11 09:44:35 PDT 2008


On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 20:23 +0200, you wrote:

> I'm a little confused about the license under which is Bro distributed.
> Is it "BSD" or "BSD with advertising"? It looks like that in the
> COPYING file is "BSD with advertising" and on
> http://bro-ids.org/license.html "BSD".

Good catch, I never noticed that that's inconsistent. As "BSD with
advertising" comes with the source, and the Web site came later, I
suppose that's the one which applies. But that's for Vern to answer
authoritatively (he's out at so that might take a bit). 

Robin

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