On Wednesday 07 April 2004 07:34 pm, Guillermito wrote: > 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 >
I'm truly sorry to hear this. I hope it goes well for you. So many times big companies get away with selling thier flawed products and get away with it. I wont mention any names we all know who they are and they are paying the price right now in the loss of customer support and confidence if nothing else. > > > [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] ------------------------------------------------------- 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
