On 5/12/10 12:59 PM, Shawn Bakhtiar wrote:
ClamWin Free Antivirus is based on ClamAV engine and uses GNU General Public License by the Free Software Foundation, and is free (as in freedom) software. To find out more about GNU GPL, please visit the following link: Philosophy of the GNU Project - Free Software Foundation. Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library.(Read more...) What part of this is NOT Open Source? it is GPL (both windows and AV).
ClamWin is not ClamAV for Windows. They are two products from two different vendors. I suspect ClamAV for Windows is not open source because they want to make some money, and they can't user GPL without releasing their Windows code which they don't want to do.
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