On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 01:06:27 -0400
"Brian Bruns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Regardless of what ClamAV is licensed as, is the database being
> published under the GPL as well?  Is it public domain?
> 
> We've run into very similar type questions with the AHBL stuff - what
> are we going to publish our database information as?  Our standard
> license is either GPL or BSD.  Now, there is a difference between the
> AHBL and the ClamAV database - the AHBL database was pretty much
> completely constructed by me, and as I own the SOSDG/AHBL, I also own
> the database, so I can decide alone, or delegate that decision to
> someone else in my group, on what it will be released as.
> 
> 
> However, there is alot more people working on ClamAV and its database
> then just one group - so who technically owns the ClamAV virus
> database?

The database is partially owned by the OpenAV team (in this case
represented by Kurt Huwig) because it includes about 4500 signatures
from then and by ClamAV (represented by me).

> If this company is found to be in violation of the GPL, let me know,
> and I'll see if I can put some heat on them.  We've had to smack some
> people up in the past for breaking licenses on software some of our
> users developed years ago.

That's a simple merge of the main and daily databases but it has removed
the (Clam) markers.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/vdetect$ unzip vdetect.zip 
Archive:  vdetect.zip
  inflating: LisezMoi.txt            
  inflating: sign.dbp                
  inflating: vdetect.exe          

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/vdetect$ file sign.dbp 
sign.dbp: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/vdetect$ unzip sign.dbp
Archive:  sign.dbp
  inflating: sign.db                 

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/vdetect$ tail -5 sign.db
Trojan.Dropper.Small.HG=45ec8b008b00a3304040008b55ec8b02a3344040008b420
4a338404000565751b9140000008d3d3c4040008b3534404000f3a58d3d3c404000893d
34404000595f5eff548f045d5e8b5d0c09c0742878348b7b0853e82affffff83c4048d6
b105653e8c3feffff83c4088d0c768b048f
Trojan.Padodor.d=f5e0dfd16c8150a73c695bee58ca922d3c69512d69e0777e6a3e19
5830e2cf3dc36c065d7d6911d3c31c9ed249617a50b46992a4fab87424ca1db61cc3828
2a4c6b878a67161182105e19e3ebfae9014cb1b7ea4c22743c3fa2d8c2c3c8291eb3f69
cd7367345178b58c2a813f6892c5
Trojan.Padodor.d-dll=5a616b726f6d61206f6620526f64696e610053504557532063
726577202d207a616f63686e6f20707269676f766f72656e69206b20726173737472656
c75004672617564203465766572004c69676a70693332006a6b6c6d6e6f0025735c2573
004e6568657220763221284845584550
Worm.Bagle.Z=6104f72591b21b2aff18813da0067002c23675e35f9a3b25da5610fe40
9020a00f82c1d08210c87181750a6805118ce990ff02c7a3a96739daf72306253c11808
65e0481e3311e7f0bc3c7c8d1e8f7d6e1c2340684411a33c3809f010bc900740535dfb0
0899897e0618c604ff78817d
Trojan.Dropper.Small.HG-zippwd=504b0304140009000800*2e636f6d2e667261756
42e73656375726974792e7069662e706966

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   oo    .....         Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  (\/)\.........         http://www.ClamAV.net/gpg/tkojm.gpg
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       //\   /\              Thu Apr  8 10:54:49 CEST 2004

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