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Xandros infringing GPL and ClamAV copyrights

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stan.cunningham at yahoo

Nov 24, 2007, 12:24 AM

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Xandros infringing GPL and ClamAV copyrights

Hi,

I'd like to inform you that Xandros has been selling a
proprietary, closed source anti-virus application that
is nothing more than a pretty shell to ClamAV.
Importantly, the so-called "Xandros Anti-Virus" links
to ClamAV headers, uses ClamAV resources and is a
clear derivative work of ClamAV. The Xandros
Anti-Virus application should therefore be licensed
under the GPL. Nonetheless, the sources are nowhere to
be found.

I urge you to uphold your copyrights as ClamAV
developers against this parasite company that has
given nothing back to ClamAV or to the Linux/open
source community.

For more information on how to uphold your rights,
please go to:

http://gpl-violations.org/

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html

Thanks,
Stan

PS: Not only is Xandros a GPL-violator when it comes
to multiple FOSS projects, but they also bought into
M$'s patent protection racket.

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sherpya at netfarm

Nov 24, 2007, 5:20 AM

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Re: Xandros infringing GPL and ClamAV copyrights [In reply to]

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Stan Cunningham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to inform you that Xandros has been selling a
> proprietary, closed source anti-virus application that
> is nothing more than a pretty shell to ClamAV.
> Importantly, the so-called "Xandros Anti-Virus" links
> to ClamAV headers, uses ClamAV resources and is a
> clear derivative work of ClamAV. The Xandros
> Anti-Virus application should therefore be licensed
> under the GPL. Nonetheless, the sources are nowhere to
> be found.
>
> I urge you to uphold your copyrights as ClamAV
> developers against this parasite company that has
> given nothing back to ClamAV or to the Linux/open
> source community.
>
> For more information on how to uphold your rights,
> please go to:
>
> http://gpl-violations.org/
>
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html
>
> Thanks,
> Stan
>
> PS: Not only is Xandros a GPL-violator when it comes
> to multiple FOSS projects, but they also bought into
> M$'s patent protection racket.
>

I'm getting annoyed grr
it's not the first corp and unfortunately neither the last :(

Regards

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