From cad9e487abf8519adf1218277c171bf71ff1f06b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kelley Misata Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2026 12:29:03 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update what-is-suricata.rst updating descriptions and provide more clarity around the GPL license and OISF consortium. --- doc/userguide/what-is-suricata.rst | 19 +++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/userguide/what-is-suricata.rst b/doc/userguide/what-is-suricata.rst index ae388bd05e..4edd50c431 100644 --- a/doc/userguide/what-is-suricata.rst +++ b/doc/userguide/what-is-suricata.rst @@ -1,18 +1,25 @@ What is Suricata ================ -Suricata is a high performance Network IDS, IPS and Network Security Monitoring engine. It is open source and owned by a community-run non-profit foundation, the Open Information Security Foundation (`OISF `__). Suricata is developed by the OISF. +Suricata is a high-performance, open-source network threat detection engine providing real-time intrusion detection (IDS), inline intrusion prevention (IPS), network security monitoring (NSM), and offline pcap processing in a single engine. It is trusted by security teams, governments, researchers, and security product vendors around the world. + +Suricata is developed, maintained, and supported by the `Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) `_ together with a global community of contributors and consortium members. About the Open Information Security Foundation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The Open Information Security Foundation is a non-profit foundation organized to build community and to support open-source security technologies like Suricata, the world-class IDS/IPS engine. +The Open Information Security Foundation (OISF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation dedicated to building and sustaining Suricata. Since 2009, OISF has provided the long-term stewardship an open-source project of Suricata's scale requires: a professional, globally distributed development team, board governance, and the business infrastructure that keeps the project stable, secure, and moving forward. + +OISF is vendor-neutral. Its work is guided by the needs of the entire Suricata community, not any single company or product. The foundation is funded by its consortium members, organizations that rely on Suricata and invest in its continued development, and it has no outside investors. + +Beyond the codebase, OISF brings the community together through SuriCon, its annual user and developer conference, along with training and community programs that help users and contributors get the most out of Suricata. License ------- -The Suricata source code is licensed under version 2 of the -:doc:`licenses/gnu-gpl-v2.0`. +Suricata's source code is licensed under version 2 of the :doc:`licenses/gnu-gpl-v2.0'. Suricata is free to use, including in +commercial environments, under the terms of the GPL. + +If you embed or redistribute Suricata as part of a product, your use may call for a different license. OISF offers non-GPL licensing through consortium membership and is happy to help you find the right fit. See the `GPL: Frequently Asked Questions `_ or learn more about the `OISF Consortium `_. -This documentation is licensed under the -:doc:`licenses/cc-nc-4.0`. +This documentation is licensed under the :doc:`licenses/cc-nc-4.0’.