Comments on: Claws Mail drops ClamAv™ Plugin

By: rab

rab — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:25:38 +0000

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.

By: Subcreator

Subcreator — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:05:45 +0000

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

By: Andrew V.

Andrew V. — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:16:58 +0000

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

By: lor-anonymous

lor-anonymous — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:49:16 +0000

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.

By: rab

rab — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:42:04 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous bin Ich

Anonymous bin Ich — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:31:34 +0000

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

By: Seraphyn

Seraphyn — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:08:21 +0000

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