[clamav-users] Virus pattern grammar license
Hello, I am wondering if anyone can give me an answer on this. What is the license for ClamAV's virus signature grammar? I know the official CVDs are GPL, but I have not found anything about the grammar(i.e., the use of the symbols such as *, (, ), [, ], |, etc.) used in the regex-like sigs of the CVDs. I am writing a commercial program with a functionality detecting a set of patterns among many files. Borrowng the patterm describing grammar of ClamAV definitely has some benefit in designing, implementing, and testing my pattern matching engine. Regards, -- Yoon-Chan ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
Re: [clamav-users] Virus pattern grammar license
IANAL but as far as I can see there should be no limitations on that. If there are, it should be a patent, not a license? On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:50 AM, Yoon-Chan Jhi wrote: > Hello, > > I am wondering if anyone can give me an answer on this. What is the > license for ClamAV's virus signature grammar? I know the official CVDs > are GPL, but I have not found anything about the grammar(i.e., the use > of the symbols such as *, (, ), [, ], |, etc.) used in the regex-like > sigs of the CVDs. > > I am writing a commercial program with a functionality detecting a set > of patterns among many files. Borrowng the patterm describing grammar > of ClamAV definitely has some benefit in designing, implementing, and > testing my pattern matching engine. > > Regards, > > -- > Yoon-Chan > ___ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://www.clamav.net/support/ml -- Andrés Riancho Project Leader at w3af - http://w3af.org/ Web Application Attack and Audit Framework Twitter: @w3af GPG: 0x93C344F3 ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
Re: [clamav-users] Virus pattern grammar license
The code is licensed GPLv2. -- Joel Esler Senior Research Engineer, VRT OpenSource Community Manager Sourcefire On Jun 13, 2013, at 5:50 AM, Yoon-Chan Jhi wrote: > Hello, > > I am wondering if anyone can give me an answer on this. What is the > license for ClamAV's virus signature grammar? I know the official CVDs > are GPL, but I have not found anything about the grammar(i.e., the use > of the symbols such as *, (, ), [, ], |, etc.) used in the regex-like > sigs of the CVDs. > > I am writing a commercial program with a functionality detecting a set > of patterns among many files. Borrowng the patterm describing grammar > of ClamAV definitely has some benefit in designing, implementing, and > testing my pattern matching engine. > > Regards, > > -- > Yoon-Chan > ___ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://www.clamav.net/support/ml ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
Re: [clamav-users] Virus pattern grammar license
On 6/13/2013 5:50 AM, Yoon-Chan Jhi wrote: Hello, I am wondering if anyone can give me an answer on this. What is the license for ClamAV's virus signature grammar? I know the official CVDs are GPL, but I have not found anything about the grammar(i.e., the use of the symbols such as *, (, ), [, ], |, etc.) used in the regex-like sigs of the CVDs. I am writing a commercial program with a functionality detecting a set of patterns among many files. Borrowng the patterm describing grammar of ClamAV definitely has some benefit in designing, implementing, and testing my pattern matching engine. For regular expression pattern matching, why not use PCRE? http://www.pcre.org/ -- Bowie ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
Re: [clamav-users] Virus pattern grammar license
Yes, the code is GPLv2. Does it mean that the CVD format is also GPLv2? In other words, I was wondering if I could write a proprietary software that could read third-party signatures in the CVD format. Regards, Yoon-Chan 2013/6/14 Joel Esler : > The code is licensed GPLv2. > > -- > Joel Esler > Senior Research Engineer, VRT > OpenSource Community Manager > Sourcefire > > > ___ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://www.clamav.net/support/ml -- Yoon-Chan Jhi ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
Re: [clamav-users] Virus pattern grammar license
Yoon-Chan Jhi skrev den 2013-06-14 04:17: Yes, the code is GPLv2. Does it mean that the CVD format is also GPLv2? In other words, I was wondering if I could write a proprietary software that could read third-party signatures in the CVD format. sourcefire already do this with there windows version of clamav i still miss how to make self cvd files, not nesaserly signed by sourcefire, cvd files are only so far created by google and sourcefire teams i cant understand it can be GPLv2 and incomplete at that stage -- senders that put my email into body content will deliver it to my own trashcan, so if you like to get reply, dont do it ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
