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Re: Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives
From: Jorrit Kronjee <full-disclosure () nospam wafel org>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:38:48 +0100
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 01:19:00AM +0000, James Eaton-Lee wrote:although bz2 is released under a BSD license, gzip isn't - it's GPL, and therefore any antivirus vendorwould have to write their gzip code totally from scratch.I really was not going to get into the fool fight, but sometimes I really get amazed by what people that don't understand an inch about the topic can say. In case you missed, the gzip algorithim is also avaliable on zlib, which is released under the BSD license. Please take your time and do your homework next time. http://www.gzip.org/zlib/PS: If someone already pointed this to this mo... missinformed(sic?) list member, please disregard my post.
Actually, that's not a BSD license, but the so-called zlib license, which differs on a few points.
http://www.gzip.org/zlib/zlib_license.html I did my homework, but all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Jorrit _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- Re: Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives Nick FitzGerald (Feb 05)
- Re: Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives James Eaton-Lee (Feb 05)
- Re: Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives Nick FitzGerald (Feb 05)
- Re: Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives James Eaton-Lee (Feb 06)
- Re: Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives bkfsec (Feb 07)
- Re: Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives James Eaton-Lee (Feb 07)
- Re: Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives bkfsec (Feb 08)
- Re: Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives James Eaton-Lee (Feb 05)
- Re: Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives Nick FitzGerald (Feb 05)
- Software Licenses and compression (was: Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives) bkfsec (Feb 07)
- Re: Software Licenses and compression (was: Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives) James Eaton-Lee (Feb 07)
- Re: Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives Rodrigo Barbosa (Feb 10)
- Re: Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives Jorrit Kronjee (Feb 10)
- Re: Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives James Eaton-Lee (Feb 11)
- Re: Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives Nick FitzGerald (Feb 07)
- RE: Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives Nick FitzGerald (Feb 07)
- RE: Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives Barrie Dempster (Feb 08)
- RE: Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives Nick FitzGerald (Feb 08)