On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:34:05 +0200 Gianluigi Tiesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:04:03 +0200 > > Enrico Scholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> citing from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=334371 > >> > >> While investigating the possible inclusion of a GPL'd unrar package > >> (see Bugzilla 319831), it was discovered that clamav contained a RAR > >> v3 implementation that was copied/derived from the RARlabs unrar > >> source code. Eugene Roshal of RARlabs confirmed that they did not > >> give permission for any RAR v3 implementation to be used under the > >> GPL, only under the unrar license (which is GPL incompatible). > >> > >> > >> > >> Therefore: what is the origin of RAR v3 code? Who gave the permissions > >> to license it under GPLv2+? How can we proceed so that clamav can be > >> used legally? > > > > ClamAV doesn't include any 3rd party RAR code. The code in 0.9x was > > written by our developer, in C, but in fact it uses the same > > decompression algorithms and may be a subject to patents or other > > intellectual rights. After discussing the matter with Eugene Roshal, we > > decided 0.92 will not include the rar3 code but instead it will be > > provided as an additional library (most likely licenced under LGPL + > > original unrar restrictions) and we will add a special clause to ClamAV's > > licence to allow linking with this library. > > > I've just looked at svn, and the changes are not enough > libclamunrar cannot be built standalone there are circular dependencies It's not prepared for a standalone build yet, it has just been moved outside of libclamav. -- oo ..... Tomasz Kojm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (\/)\......... http://www.ClamAV.net/gpg/tkojm.gpg \..........._ 0DCA5A08407D5288279DB43454822DC8985A444B //\ /\ Thu Oct 25 13:28:14 CEST 2007 _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html Please submit your patches to our Bugzilla: http://bugs.clamav.net
