Re: [clamav-users] Virus pattern grammar license

2013-06-14 Thread Benny Pedersen
Yoon-Chan Jhi skrev den 2013-06-14 04:17: Yes, the code is GPLv2. Does it mean that the CVD format is also GPLv2? In other words, I was wondering if I could write a proprietary software that could read third-party signatures in the CVD format. sourcefire already do this with there windows

[clamav-users] Virus pattern grammar license

2013-06-13 Thread Yoon-Chan Jhi
Hello, I am wondering if anyone can give me an answer on this. What is the license for ClamAV's virus signature grammar? I know the official CVDs are GPL, but I have not found anything about the grammar(i.e., the use of the symbols such as *, (, ), [, ], |, etc.) used in the regex-like sigs of

Re: [clamav-users] Virus pattern grammar license

2013-06-13 Thread Andres Riancho
IANAL but as far as I can see there should be no limitations on that. If there are, it should be a patent, not a license? On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:50 AM, Yoon-Chan Jhi yoonc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am wondering if anyone can give me an answer on this. What is the license for ClamAV's

Re: [clamav-users] Virus pattern grammar license

2013-06-13 Thread Joel Esler
The code is licensed GPLv2. -- Joel Esler Senior Research Engineer, VRT OpenSource Community Manager Sourcefire On Jun 13, 2013, at 5:50 AM, Yoon-Chan Jhi yoonc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am wondering if anyone can give me an answer on this. What is the license for ClamAV's virus

Re: [clamav-users] Virus pattern grammar license

2013-06-13 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/13/2013 5:50 AM, Yoon-Chan Jhi wrote: Hello, I am wondering if anyone can give me an answer on this. What is the license for ClamAV's virus signature grammar? I know the official CVDs are GPL, but I have not found anything about the grammar(i.e., the use of the symbols such as *, (, ), [,

Re: [clamav-users] Virus pattern grammar license

2013-06-13 Thread Yoon-Chan Jhi
Yes, the code is GPLv2. Does it mean that the CVD format is also GPLv2? In other words, I was wondering if I could write a proprietary software that could read third-party signatures in the CVD format. Regards, Yoon-Chan 2013/6/14 Joel Esler jes...@sourcefire.com: The code is licensed GPLv2.