On Thursday, April 08, 2004 3:17 PM [EST], Lionel Bouton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tomasz Kojm wrote the following on 04/08/04 19:49 : > >> On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 13:16:51 -0400 >> "Brian Bruns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Ok, I'm still somewhat unsure if your saying that the DB is covered by >>> the GPL, BSD, some other license, or if its considered public domain? >>> I have not been able to find info on what the openav database was >>> licensed as. >>> >>> >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ sigtool -u daily.cvd >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ less COPYING >> >> >> > > IANAL... > > I'm worried about the license choice : daily and main.cvd are clearly > GPLed but I'm not sure if it prevents using them in proprietary software > (you don't link to the cvd files, you only use them as data). I think it > only prevents people from taking the files, modifying them and release > them alone or as part of a whole package without the GPL attached for > the cvd files. > > Is it the real goal or shouldn't proprietary software be forbidden to > use these files ? > > In this case I'd try to make things clear by renaming COPYING to GPLv2 > and adding a COPYING which clearly states that the whole CVD is covered > by the GPL and software using the content for the purpose of detecting > virii must be covered by the GPL too (I think you want to allow people > to use proprietary software to transmit the file for example). > > But as I said IANAL, better ask the fsf... Perhaps it might be better to use one of the documentation licenses then? I'm not sure, I consider the use of the data file in the case of clamav to be an integral part, very similar to the source code itself. But, like I said, everyone has their own opinions on this. -- Brian Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group Open Solutions For A Closed World / Anti-Spam Resources http://www.sosdg.org The Abusive Hosts Blocking List http://www.ahbl.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
