I finally contacted my lawyer and have been pointed at wonderful GPL FAQ
and found these questions that match (I think) pretty close to my situation:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLRequireAvailabilityToPublic
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html#NFUseGPLPlugins
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html#UnchangedJustBinary
I think it's clear now. Sorry guys for disturbing you.
On 3/9/2010 9:09 PM, aCaB wrote:
Alexander N. Telegin wrote:
I'd like to ship ClamAV with my commercial closed-source SMTP proxy to
provide virus scanning capabilities out of the box. I use one of Win32
ports (http://oss.netfarm.it/clamav/) as stand alone application (ClamD
service), i.e. I don't call libclamav.dll or any other ClamAV libraries
directly from my software: it connects to ClamAV through TCP/IP. I read
GNU license, but I'm programmer, and it's hard to get all these lawyer
things and don't miss anything. So I would like to clarify can I
distribute ClamAV along with my software, or should I ask users download
and install ClamAV themselfs?
Lemme get the point:
You are a coder and not a lawyer. You have no OSS inclination.
Which is why you are asking on an OSS coders mailing list how to resolve
your own legal issues; notably how to workaround (some would say skrew)
the GPL limitations without paying a penny to either the software
makers, nor to your poor lawyer.
Do you really expect any sort of help in here?
-aCaB
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