Re: [Clamav-users] How infectious is the GPL?

2004-06-22 Thread Antony Stone
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 2:41 am, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:30:19AM +0200, Damjan wrote the following: > > > However you cannot: > > > > > > - directly use the virus databases > > > > How come? > > As far as I know, copyright law doesn't protect databases. > > You have

Re: [Clamav-users] How infectious is the GPL?

2004-06-22 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 06:20:14PM -0400, Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > > - link against libclamav > > > - directly use the virus databases > > > - include our code in your software (obvious ;-)) > > could he write a shim that is LGPL'd that links to libclamav? > Well, I don't know. This is a question to

Re: [Clamav-users] How infectious is the GPL?

2004-06-21 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:30:19AM +0200, Damjan wrote the following: > > However you cannot: > > > > - directly use the virus databases > > How come? > As far as I know, copyright law doesn't protect databases. You haven't been keeping up. Congress is pushing really hard (if they haven't alread

Re: [Clamav-users] How infectious is the GPL?

2004-06-21 Thread Damjan
> However you cannot: > > - directly use the virus databases How come? As far as I know, copyright law doesn't protect databases. -- damjan | ÐÐÐÑÐÐ This is my jabber ID --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <-- not my mail address!!! --- This SF.Net email

Re: [Clamav-users] How infectious is the GPL?

2004-06-21 Thread Mark Mielke
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 06:20:14PM -0400, Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > > - link against libclamav > > > - directly use the virus databases > > > - include our code in your software (obvious ;-)) > > could he write a shim that is LGPL'd that links to libclamav? > Well, I don't know. This is a question to

Re: [Clamav-users] How infectious is the GPL?

2004-06-21 Thread Gerardo Reynoso
On Monday 21 June 2004 04:04, Paul Smith wrote: > We have a commercial product, which we want to keep commercial. It's some > email server software, which has the capability to run an external virus > scanner (currently it supports several commercial virus scanners) > We tend to either use commerci

Re: [Clamav-users] How infectious is the GPL?

2004-06-21 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:48:05 -0500 Jeremy Kitchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 21 June 2004 04:04 pm, Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > However you cannot: > > > > - link against libclamav > > - directly use the virus databases > > - include our code in your software (obvious ;-)) > > could he wri

Re: [Clamav-users] How infectious is the GPL?

2004-06-21 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Monday 21 June 2004 10:41 am, Paul Smith wrote: > >IANAL. Take my answers below with a grain of salt. > > Of course :-) > > > > - our software supports 'shim' DLLs with a standard interface which can > > > talk to a third party antivirus product to add the capability for more > > > virus scanne

Re: [Clamav-users] How infectious is the GPL?

2004-06-21 Thread Paul Smith
IANAL. Take my answers below with a grain of salt. Of course :-) > - our software supports 'shim' DLLs with a standard interface which can > talk to a third party antivirus product to add the capability for more > virus scanners without recompilation. WE could make one of those to talk to > clama

Re: [Clamav-users] How infectious is the GPL?

2004-06-21 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Monday 21 June 2004 04:04 pm, Tomasz Kojm wrote: > However you cannot: > > - link against libclamav > - directly use the virus databases > - include our code in your software (obvious ;-)) could he write a shim that is LGPL'd that links to libclamav? -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kitchen ++ Systems Admi

Re: [Clamav-users] How infectious is the GPL?

2004-06-21 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Monday 21 June 2004 06:54 am, John Leach wrote: > I don't believe talking to the daemon via TCP/IP (or even a socket) > would be a violation [of the GPL], but along with Jeremy, IANAL (I can sleep at > night). I don't see how it possibly could be. That'd be ludicrous. -Jeremy -- Jeremy Kit

Re: [Clamav-users] How infectious is the GPL?

2004-06-21 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:04:39 +0100 Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a commercial product, which we want to keep commercial. It's > some email server software, which has the capability to run an [...] > There are several possibilities I've come up with: > - add support for our soft

Re: [Clamav-users] How infectious is the GPL?

2004-06-21 Thread John Leach
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 10:04 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > Sorry if this is a FAQ - I've searched and can't find anything about it > anywhere.. I think this is more of a gpl FAQ http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#GPL I believe any linking directly or indirectly (via a shim as you suggest) is

Re: [Clamav-users] How infectious is the GPL?

2004-06-21 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Monday 21 June 2004 04:45 am, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: > IANAL. Take my answers below with a grain of salt. [snip] > that would be horribly infectious. That's like saying "Ooo, I wrote an > GPL'd for outlook, now microsoft has to give me their source!" *cough* GPL'd plugin. -Jeremy -- Jeremy

Re: [Clamav-users] How infectious is the GPL?

2004-06-21 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
IANAL. Take my answers below with a grain of salt. On Monday 21 June 2004 04:04 am, Paul Smith wrote: > There are several possibilities I've come up with: > - add support for our software to either load libclamav or talk to clamd > directly, if those things are installed. This seems to me that we

[Clamav-users] How infectious is the GPL?

2004-06-21 Thread Paul Smith
Sorry if this is a FAQ - I've searched and can't find anything about it anywhere.. We have a commercial product, which we want to keep commercial. It's some email server software, which has the capability to run an external virus scanner (currently it supports several commercial virus scanners)