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™.
Thu, 14th Feb 2008 15:08:21 +0100
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.
UsingHope 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
Thu, 14th Feb 2008 15:31:34 +0100
Sorry for I am not aware of it already, but who wrote the code for the plugin? Was it ClamAV™ team?
UsingThu, 14th Feb 2008 16:42:04 +0100
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.
UsingSun, 17th Feb 2008 23:49:16 +0100
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.
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UsingMon, 18th Feb 2008 6:16:58 +0100
Oh maaan. Following your logic, laws Mail (GPLv3+) is not compatible with Linux(GPLv2).
Using;)
Mon, 18th Feb 2008 13:05:45 +0100
2 Andrew V.
UsingClamav plugin is included in Claws Mail, but Claws Mail isn't included in kernel.
Mon, 18th Feb 2008 20:25:38 +0100
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.:
UsingIt's not my logic, it's legal stuff, and the kernel is a special case.