GPLv2 to LGPLv3 - LICENSE change and integration with Suricata

LibtraceTeam / libprotoident

Network traffic classification library that requires minimal application payload

GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0

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GPLv2 to LGPLv3 - LICENSE change and integration with Suricata #20

Open vpiserchia opened 7 years ago

vpiserchia commented 7 years ago

Hello dear libprotoident developer/s,

may I ask about the change of the licensing. There was a thread about including libprotoident into the suricata IDS/IPS: https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/511 As you can see from here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility GPLv2 as suricata is and LGPLv3 as now libprotoident are not compatible at all. Different would be having LGPLv2.1+ .

I'm interested in your opinion

regards vito piserchia

aoshiken commented 7 years ago

That would be very great and a needed one for Suricata

q2dg commented 1 year ago

LGPLv3 makes this impossible (Suricata is GPLv2)

vpiserchia commented 1 year ago

@q2dg that's a fact, the meaning of this ticket is to discuss the possibility to change the license in order to use it under Suricata. I'm also willing to share the integration code in that case.