On Monday 21 June 2004 10:41 am, Paul Smith wrote:
> >IANAL. Take my answers below with a grain of salt.
>
> Of course :-)
>
> > > - our software supports 'shim' DLLs with a standard interface which can
> > > talk to a third party antivirus product to add the capability for more
> > > virus scanners without recompilation. WE could make one of those to
> > > talk to clamav instead. That shim DLL could then be GPLed without a
> > > problem for us. But, then, because our email server software would
> > > dynamically load the shim, which is GPLed, our server would have to be
> > > GPLed as well... Again, not acceptable.
> >
> >no, the GPL allows for private license agreements. Simply license the
> >shim to
> >yourself, done.
>
> Ah, so we can say 'this is GPL for everyone, except for ourselves to whom
> we grant a licence to allow unrestricted use'? I didn't realise that -
> thanks.
I believe so. As I've said IANAL... but I think that's how transgaming does
it. Also, MySQL will sell you a license for using mysql with your commercial
products, so I would assume it is similar.
If nothing else, perhaps you can work something out with the copyright owner
of clamav (Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) or whatever.
Good Luck :)
-Jeremy
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