From my reading of the Snort GNU General Public License it seems to me that it is clearly illegal for Astaro to charge for it. (Other than covering the cost of distribution or optionally, as a "warranty protection" fee).
The Snort license can be read here...
http://www.snort.org/license.html
This clause here is of particular interest:
Section 2
b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
Could Astaro please comment on this ?
If I were to strictly translate this I'd read it that if you put Snort into ASL then you have to give the whole ASL package away for free ! (Since ASL is a work that contains in part, Snort)
Reading down further would appear to exempt ASL from being a free product because of this, but it could be argued since Snort ties into the reporting system and other parts of the ASL package. In any case, it still appears to me to be illegal to charge for Snort in any way except to cover distribution costs.
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