Re: [Full-Disclosure] Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives

[Jorrit Kronjee <full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 vendor
> > > would 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
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