Hello to all members of this list. I was wondering if a company has the right to distribute a scanner they probably coded, which uses the ClamAV virus signatures database, and provide this package for free - as in free beer - but not under the GPL, without source code, and even more, with a home-made licence that explicitely forbids any reverse engineering or analysis. In other words, a closed software under a non-GPL compliant licence.
This french company sells a generic antivirus, and distributes this scanner tool, well hidden on their website, to clean computers before installation of their own product. You can find this tool here: http://www.tegam.fr/download/tools/vdetect.zip [DISCLAIMER] There is a conflict of interest here. I am currently sued by this company because I published an analysis of their anti-virus product, showed a few flaws, and debunked their claim of stopping "100% of known and unknown viruses", on my website. The publication of exploits to demonstrate my theorical analysis was labelled as "counterfeiting", and I am currently indicted for that in France. More info on my website: http://www.guillermito2.net/archives/2004_03_25e.html I'm not hiding that if this company actually violates the GPL, it will help my own case, by showing who acts in good faith and who does not. [/DISCLAIMER] -- Guillermito http://www.guillermito2.net ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
