Sorry if I implied otherwise.  I meant Fedora and their difficulties with 
unrar.  I am a big supporter of your Scott, this you know. 

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> On Apr 5, 2019, at 20:53, Scott Kitterman via clamav-users 
> <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:
> 
> On a Debian system with non-free enabled, it only takes "apt install 
> libclamunrar9" to get the full unrar capability.  It's still a better 
> solution for Debian users to use the packaged version.
> 
> There are a few exceptions (for example, getting 0.101 and libclamav9 
> transitioned into our stable release is taking some time, due to reverse 
> depends and patching needed for the changed API, so if one really needs that 
> now, then by all means build from source), but generally Debian users are 
> better served by the O/S integration provided through the packaging system.
> 
> We have an exception to the usual rule about no new versions of packages in 
> stable releases for clamav, so the usual reason, not wanting to be stuck with 
> an old version of the package doesn't generally apply.
> 
> I don't want to get into an extended argument about which is better, but I 
> think Debian does a pretty good job as a clamav distributor.
> 
> Scott K
> 
>> On April 6, 2019 12:21:05 AM UTC, "Joel Esler (jesler)" <jes...@cisco.com> 
>> wrote:
>> Correct.  Which is why we recommend people compile from source for full
>> functionality.  
>> 
>> Sent from my  iPhone
>> 
>>> On Apr 5, 2019, at 20:12, Scott Kitterman via clamav-users
>> <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The unrar stuff is still free to use.
>>> 
>>> Due to modification restrictions Debian splits it off into the
>> unofficial non-free repository.
>>> 
>>> Scott K
>>> 
>>>> On April 6, 2019 12:03:03 AM UTC, "J.R. via clamav-users"
>> <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:
>>>> I just doubled checked, but I don't see a LICENSE file in the
>>>> clamav-0.101.2.tar.gz archive???
>>>> 
>>>> EDIT - There is the GPLv2 contained in the COPYING file. I just
>>>> realized each of those files gives the licence for each part of
>>>> ClamAV. Probably the most notable is the unrar licence, which if I
>>>> recall RHEL/CentOS disables due to licence conflicts?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 4:30 PM Joel Esler (jesler)
>> <jes...@cisco.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> That’s the content on the website.  ClamAV, the software, is
>> governed
>>>> by the GPLv2 and other associates licenses as indicated by the
>> LICENSE
>>>> file contained therein.
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