[clamav-users] ClamAV® blog: ClamAV 0.104.0 Second Release Candidate is here!

[Paul Kosinski]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 10:48:48 +0100 (BST)
"G.W. Haywood via clamav-users" <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2021, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 22 Aug 2021 14:42:06 +0000
> > "Joel Esler via clamav-users" wrote:
> >  
> >> I’m a fan of the thought of removing the user manual completely
> >> from the downloaded packages and including a link to
> >> docs.ClamAV.net.  Since that’s more dynamic.  
> >
> > I think that's a bad idea for three reasons:
> >
> > First, the Website might be (temporarily) inaccessible.
> >
> > Second, the machine running ClamAV may be blocked from accessing the Internet ...
> >
> > Finally, if the documentation is "dynamic", it presumably is for the latest release ...  
> 
> +1
> 
> I suspect most ClamAV installations are via packages for the various
> distributions.  Please think about the distribution package managers.
> If the documentation were not included in the release tarballs they'd
> have a great deal more work to do, and the opportunities for errors
> and confusion would be increased out of all proportion.


Good point about the Release Managers.

Maybe the GPL should augmented to require docs to be available in the same way as the source code, when GPLed executables are distributed :-)