Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...] > > Personally, BTW, I would really, really prefer to maintain Free > > Software, not *only* for political reasons but also because a > > commercial vendor is obviously the least responsive upstream you can > > have. And also, not having access to the source really sucks badly > > (even if for non-hackers like me)! > > > You suggested considering alternatives. So far I haven't heard of any > > free-as-in-freedom virus scanner, let alone a production-quality > > one. Did I miss something? If yes, please let me know! > > Have you looked at the packages amavis-ng and clamav? I've heard good > things about these DFSG-free virus tools, but haven't tried them yet > myself. [...] amavis is already in Debian. It needs a third party virus scanner to work. Also clamav is already in Debian. (I never heard of it before.). So now I can choose either to abandon my one and only Debian package or to continue supporting non-free software, although a free alternative is in development. I just visited the clamav home page. They say they are using virus data from openantivirus.org (of which I never heard before.). At OpenAntivirus.org they refer to their own software as Alpha quality. I don't know if this applies to both binaries and virus data. Well, I'm quite surprised that such an initiative as openantivirus.org exists. I thought we would need production-quality viruses for GNU/Linux first. But both under openvirus.org and freevirus.org I get a "host not found". Hey folks, we're lagging behind! How can GNU/Linux ever become ready for the desktop like that? ;-) Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
