[clamav-users] Clamav for educational institutions ?

[Joel Esler (jesler)]

Sorry if I implied otherwise.  I meant Fedora and their difficulties with unrar.  I am a big supporter of your Scott, this you know. 

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> On Apr 5, 2019, at 20:53, Scott Kitterman via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
> 
> On a Debian system with non-free enabled, it only takes "apt install libclamunrar9" to get the full unrar capability.  It's still a better solution for Debian users to use the packaged version.
> 
> There are a few exceptions (for example, getting 0.101 and libclamav9 transitioned into our stable release is taking some time, due to reverse depends and patching needed for the changed API, so if one really needs that now, then by all means build from source), but generally Debian users are better served by the O/S integration provided through the packaging system.
> 
> We have an exception to the usual rule about no new versions of packages in stable releases for clamav, so the usual reason, not wanting to be stuck with an old version of the package doesn't generally apply.
> 
> I don't want to get into an extended argument about which is better, but I think Debian does a pretty good job as a clamav distributor.
> 
> Scott K
> 
>> On April 6, 2019 12:21:05 AM UTC, "Joel Esler (jesler)" <jesler at cisco.com> wrote:
>> Correct.  Which is why we recommend people compile from source for full
>> functionality.  
>> 
>> Sent from my  iPhone
>> 
>>> On Apr 5, 2019, at 20:12, Scott Kitterman via clamav-users
>> <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The unrar stuff is still free to use.
>>> 
>>> Due to modification restrictions Debian splits it off into the
>> unofficial non-free repository.
>>> 
>>> Scott K
>>> 
>>>> On April 6, 2019 12:03:03 AM UTC, "J.R. via clamav-users"
>> <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
>>>> I just doubled checked, but I don't see a LICENSE file in the
>>>> clamav-0.101.2.tar.gz archive???
>>>> 
>>>> EDIT - There is the GPLv2 contained in the COPYING file. I just
>>>> realized each of those files gives the licence for each part of
>>>> ClamAV. Probably the most notable is the unrar licence, which if I
>>>> recall RHEL/CentOS disables due to licence conflicts?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 4:30 PM Joel Esler (jesler)
>> <jesler at cisco.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> That’s the content on the website.  ClamAV, the software, is
>> governed
>>>> by the GPLv2 and other associates licenses as indicated by the
>> LICENSE
>>>> file contained therein.
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