> On Aug 1, 2022, at 15:36, Paul Kosinski <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 17:38:20 -0400
> Joel Esler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> ClamAV is a Cisco project.  There’s no arguing that.
>> All of the original team are observed here: https://www.clamav.net/about
>> So, not sure what you’re getting at.  
> 
> The phrase "*the* authors of the software" rather implies that Cisco's Talos 
> are the only authors of the software. And G.W. Haywood seems to have agreed 
> with me on this that the phrasing could be misinterpreted.
> 
> 
> Cisco's Talos has indeed made ClamAV a lot better than it was years ago, but 
> they have kept much of the basic structure and, I would guess, some of the 
> original code.

Well of course.  When ClamAV was acquired by Sourcefire, Sourcefire hired the 
original developers until they all left to start another company.  ClamAV has 
continued to live on through the Cisco acquisition, and is continued to be 
developed by Cisco. All code must pass through Cisco employees to be committed 
to the code base. Occasionally open source contributions are made to ClamAV, 
but even when that happens, it must pass through Cisco’s QA tests.  
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