Claws Mail drops ClamAv™ Plugin

Due to Licensing Issues™ the Claws Mail ClamAV™ Plugin has been dropped.

It seems that Sourcefire®, the company who employ the core ClamAV™ developers, wish all the ClamAV™ code to be published under GPLv2 only, and this is Incompatible™ with the GPLv3+ license that Claws Mail has.

You might Think™ that it would make Sense™ for a library to be licensed under 'GPLv2 or any later version', but apparently not. So, Goodbye To ClamAv™. Now the Bogofilter Plugin will have to catch all the Spam™ for me, as, Essentially™, that was what the ClamAV™ plugin was doing for Me™.

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7 Responses to “Claws Mail drops ClamAv™ Plugin”

  1. Seraphyn Says:

    Hmmmm, Okay, I use SA with Bayes, Pyzor, Razor, FuzzyOCR and SARE-Lists. I tested the bogofilter but this one do not really work for Me. I should say that i use not the SA-Plugin provided by CM, i use a script as a filter for the whole incoming mails.
    Hope that Sourcefire© would transport their code to the next Version, for some Users ClamAV ist essentially in the MUA, don't why, but they prefer it.
    Greetings Seraphyn

    Using Debian IceWeasel Debian IceWeasel 2.0.0.11 on Debian GNU/Linux Debian GNU/Linux
  2. Anonymous bin Ich Says:

    Sorry for I am not aware of it already, but who wrote the code for the plugin? Was it ClamAV™ team?

    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 3.0b3 on Linux Linux
  3. rab Says:

    Sorry for I am not aware of it already, but who wrote the code for the plugin? Was it ClamAV™ team?

    The code for the ClamAV™ plugin was written by the Claws Mail team. The problem is that the plugin is a product that is derived from both Claws Mail (GPLv3+) and ClamAV™ (GPLv2), and mixing these 2 licenses is not permissible.

    Using Galeon Galeon 2.0.3 on Debian GNU/Linux Debian GNU/Linux
  4. lor-anonymous Says:

    Well… Why not write a GPLv2-licensed plugin that will plug that antivirus into Claws? It will not come bundled, bul be sure that the end-user will get it with rpms, ebuilds, tgzs….
    Or is it not a matter of software, but a matter of software developers desire to start a holy war?

    "Shut up and go code", as OpenBSD folks say.

    CTO/MEH HE HY>|<EH.

    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.7 on Linux Linux
  5. Andrew V. Says:

    Oh maaan. Following your logic, laws Mail (GPLv3+) is not compatible with Linux(GPLv2).
    ;)

    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 3.0b3 on Windows Windows XP
  6. Subcreator Says:

    2 Andrew V.
    Clamav plugin is included in Claws Mail, but Claws Mail isn't included in kernel.

    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.12 on Linux Linux
  7. rab Says:

    lor-anonymous:
    Why not write a GPLv2-licensed plugin that will plug that antivirus into Claws? This is part of the problem and the reason we've had to drop the ClamAV™ plugin — it is not legally possible. It has absolutely nothing to do with a 'desire to start a holy war'.

    Andrew V.:
    It's not my logic, it's legal stuff, and the kernel is a special case.

    Using Galeon Galeon 2.0.3 on Debian GNU/Linux Debian GNU/Linux

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