[Clamav-devel] GPL license question

[Joel Esler (jesler)]

Who is in charge of the issue = me.

Lots of people make money with ClamAV, millions and millions of dollars a month, and don’t give us a dime, don’t contribute code back, nor do they provide the detection they make back to the community.  But it’s perfectly legal.  Such is the nature with some Open Source products.

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On Sep 17, 2016, at 9:59 PM, Borough Rumford <lmdekib7 at icloud.com<mailto:lmdekib7 at icloud.com>> wrote:

Hi Joel,

You are right. It depends on how you link to clamav. But for this case, It is obvious that "BitMedic" links libclamav  internally and ship it on Mac app store. Those guys make money with clamav, it is unfair for clamav development team and community members. I am wondering who is in charge of this issue in clamav team.


Best Regards,
Patrick

On Sep 17, 2016, at 11:08 am, "Joel Esler (jesler)" <jesler at cisco.com<mailto:jesler at cisco.com>> wrote:

I'm not a lawyer. Nor do I play one on TV. But I am the community manager, and I have a lawyer that I ask my questions to, so if I really need to go to him.

That being said.

There are a ton of commercial applications that use Clam. You'd frankly be surprised. I still am. It depends on how you link to clamav. You can use clamav and parse results, things like that.

Where it gets tricky is if you modify code or do internal links to the code. But you can ship clamav packaged with something else, if you do it right. That is possible, yes.

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On Sep 17, 2016, at 1:44 PM, Nibin V M <nibinvm at gmail.com<mailto:nibinvm at gmail.com><mailto:nibinvm at gmail.com>> wrote:

Good question Patric. I am also noticing bunch of commercial security tools
for web hosting servers, which are directly or indirectly using ClamAV
libs/binaries so far. I have been wondering same because it shouldn't be
use that based on the docs!

On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Borough Rumford <lmdekib7 at icloud.com<mailto:lmdekib7 at icloud.com><mailto:lmdekib7 at icloud.com>>
wrote:

Hi,

I know clamav is released under GPL license, and third-party commercial
app shouldn't link libclamav.

However I find there is one anti-virus app link libclamav directly and is
published on Mac app store.

This app is
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bitmedic-antivirus-malware/
id1001746820?mt=12

Below is otool result of BitMedic binary otool -L BitMedic
BitMedic:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ServiceManagement.framework/Versions/A/ServiceManagement
(compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 559.20.9)

@rpath/libclamav.6.dylib (compatibility version 8.0.0, current version
8.25.0)

/usr/lib/libsqlite3.dylib (compatibility version 9.0.0, current version
168.0.0)

/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Versions/C/Foundation
(compatibility version 300.0.0, current version 1153.20.0)

/usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version
228.0.0)

/usr/lib/libc++.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version
120.0.0)

/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version
1213.0.0)

/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/C/AppKit
(compatibility version 45.0.0, current version 1347.57.0)

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
(compatibility version 150.0.0, current version 1153.18.0)

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/CoreGraphics
(compatibility version 64.0.0, current version 600.0.0)

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/CoreServices
(compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 62.0.0)

/System/Library/Frameworks/QuartzCore.framework/Versions/A/QuartzCore
(compatibility version 1.2.0, current version 1.10.0)

/System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/A/Security
(compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 57031.20.26)

/System/Library/Frameworks/SystemConfiguration.framework/Versions/A/SystemConfiguration
(compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 699.1.5)



I want to know if this way used by Bitmedic is legal and other developers
can also use clamav directly in their commercial app.



Best Regards,
Patric
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