Am 09.07.2011 12:50, schrieb Andrey V. Martyanov: > My company prefer closed source strategy, there are several reasons. Yes, > ClamAV can save us from writing custom engine. Our goal is to develop > all-in-one antivirus solution (realtime scanner, update manager etc). Now > it's unreasonable to build custom anti-virus engine, signature bases, memory > scanner and all the stuff. The best solution is to attach the libclamav and > to use the native antivirus bases. But we don't want to violate the GPL > license. LGPL can save us, but it's unclear which parts of ClamAV > destributed under the LGPL license.
The documentation states rather clearly that LibClamAV is GPL, not LGPL. See http://www.clamav.net/doc/latest/html/node35.html. Why don't you run the ClamAV daemon unaltered (you could even start it from your software) and then use the well documented interface for scanning? (see http://www.clamav.net/doc/latest/html/node28.html). There is no performance penality in that, and when using file descriptor passing on Unix, it is indeed very fast. > > On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Chris Rees <cr...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On 9 July 2011 08:49, Andrey V. Martyanov <reald...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Thanks for your explanation. And what options do I have? Clamwin uses >>> interprocess communication with clamscan. Is it the only option? I >>> found COPYING.LGPL in clamav source tree. What parts of the software are >>> covered under this license? Sorry, but I can't find any useful >> information >>> on the topic except clamav's GPL v2 compatibility marked on it's site. >>> >> >> You could release your software as free software? If ClamAV has saved >> you from writing your own engine then surely you could return the >> favour? >> >> Remember free/open-source doesn't mean no cost... >> >> Chris >> _______________________________________________ >> http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html >> Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net >> > _______________________________________________ > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html > Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net
