Thanks for your reply! It isn't really in the interest of the mailing list to pursue this any further, but this was addressed in another fork of this topic :)
- James. On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 18:49 -0200, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:19:00AM +0000, James Eaton-Lee wrote: >> although bz2 is released under >> a BSD license, gzip isn't - it's GPL, and therefore any antivirus vendor >> would have to write their gzip code totally from scratch. > >I really was not going to get into the fool fight, but sometimes I really >get amazed by what people that don't understand an inch about the topic >can say. > >In case you missed, the gzip algorithim is also avaliable on zlib, which >is released under the BSD license. > >Please take your time and do your homework next time. > >http://www.gzip.org/zlib/ > >PS: If someone already pointed this to this mo... missinformed(sic?) list >member, please disregard my post. > >- -- >Rodrigo Barbosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" >"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQFCC8jnpdyWzQ5b5ckRApfyAJ9DA7D0GwbuK48+5z7VDbaDfzWnIACeJwLR >JjIIWzvF0dfHZGCLzH5zhRw= >=pIkd >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >_______________________________________________ >Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. >Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
