[clamav-users] Inquire about clamav latest stable version -

[Joel Esler]

> On Aug 1, 2022, at 15:36, Paul Kosinski <clamav-users at iment.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2022 17:38:20 -0400
> Joel Esler <joel.esler at me.com> wrote:
> 
>> ClamAV is a Cisco project.  There’s no arguing that.
>> All of the original team are observed here: https://www.clamav.net/about
>> So, not sure what you’re getting at.  
> 
> The phrase "*the* authors of the software" rather implies that Cisco's Talos are the only authors of the software. And G.W. Haywood seems to have agreed with me on this that the phrasing could be misinterpreted.
> 
> 
> Cisco's Talos has indeed made ClamAV a lot better than it was years ago, but they have kept much of the basic structure and, I would guess, some of the original code.

Well of course.  When ClamAV was acquired by Sourcefire, Sourcefire hired the original developers until they all left to start another company.  ClamAV has continued to live on through the Cisco acquisition, and is continued to be developed by Cisco. All code must pass through Cisco employees to be committed to the code base. Occasionally open source contributions are made to ClamAV, but even when that happens, it must pass through Cisco’s QA tests.