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

[James Eaton-Lee <james.mailing@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your reply! It isn't really in the interest of the mailing
list to pursue this any further, but this was addressed in another fork
of this topic :)

 - James.

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 18:49 -0200, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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>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.
>
>- -- 
>Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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