What is Open Source?
Open Source software is generally developed and supported in a public, collaborative manner by a volunteer community of developers, users, corporations and governments. The source code for open source software is available to an open community to review, use, modify and freely distribute. The most well-known Open Source project is Linux. According to CIO Insight 2006, 81 percent of companies today have deployed or are considering deploying Open Source applications.
Free and Open Source Software Project Support
Barracuda Networks supports Free and Open Source Software projects through hardware, code, bandwidth and other contributions. In addition, select Barracuda Networks products utilize Open Source code. Barracuda Networks makes regular donations to Open Source developers and organizations, while encouraging our employees to utilize and give back to the Open Source community.
Barracuda Networks supports the following Open Source projects:
- Apache Software Foundation: monetary donation
- Cacti: monetary donation and contributed code
- ClamAV: hardware donations
- Free Software Foundation: monetary donation
- Internet Systems Consortium: hardware donations
- lm-sensors: contributed hardware
- POPFile: monetary donation
- SourceForge: monetary donation
- SpamAssassin: contributed code and bugfixes
- SURBL: hardware donations
- Valgrind: monetary donation
In addition, Barracuda Networks “Open Sources” its code:
- libmime: Streaming Event MIME Message Parser in C: Barracuda Networks-funded project
- OpenSSH Unix Domain Socket Forwarding: Barracuda Networks-funded project
- Psi Jabber Client: Barracuda Networks engineering contributions
Legal Defense of Free and Open Source Software
- Eletronic Frontier Foundation: monetary donation
- Open Invention Network (OIN): licensee
Community-Based Security Projects
Barracuda Networks supports the following community-based security projects:
- Bill Stearns: hardware donations
- Sanesecurity: mirroring of signature databases
- Spam URI Realtime Blocklists: mirroring of blocklists
- The Spamhaus Project: donations
- Free Barracuda Reputation Block List (BRBL): complete support
- EmailReg.org: hardware donations and bandwidth
Giving Back: Barracuda Networks and the GPL
Barracuda Networks shares its modifications to GPL licensed code. This code may or may not be used in Barracuda Networks products.
- amavisd-new: patches to version 20030616-p10.
- ClamAV: patches to version 0.91.1.
- dspam: patches to version 3.0.0.
- ejabberd: patches to version 1.1.2.
- HAProxy: patches to version 1.2.15.
- Linux Kernel: patches to version 2.4.33.
- PSI Jabber Client: patches to version 0.10.
- PyAIMt: patches to version 0.7b.
- SpamAssassin: patches to version 3.1.9.
- Squid: patches to version 2.5.STABLE10.
- Stunnel: patches to version 4.05.
- thttpd: patches to version 2.25b.
Other source code
Source code to the GNU/Linux system:
- Operating System: source code
Contact Barracuda Networks Open Source Team
Email address: opensource@barracuda.com