On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:04:39 +0100 Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We have a commercial product, which we want to keep commercial. It's > some email server software, which has the capability to run an [...] > There are several possibilities I've come up with: > - add support for our software to either load libclamav or talk to You cannot link commercial software against libclamav because it's licensed under GPL and not LGPL. > clamd directly, if those things are installed. This seems to me that > we'd then need to make our software GPLed - which isn't acceptable for > us In my opinion, directly talking to clamd is the best method in your case because it won't affect your license. The following things don't affect a commercial license when using ClamAV: - talking to clamd via its socket - calling clamscan and freshclam However you cannot: - link against libclamav - directly use the virus databases - include our code in your software (obvious ;-)) -- oo ..... Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (\/)\......... http://www.ClamAV.net/gpg/tkojm.gpg \..........._ 0DCA5A08407D5288279DB43454822DC8985A444B //\ /\ Mon Jun 21 17:04:23 EDT 2004
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