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Re: Multiple AV Vendors ignoring tar.gz archives
From: James Eaton-Lee <james.mailing () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:20:04 +0000
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:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 () suespammers org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCC8jnpdyWzQ5b5ckRApfyAJ9DA7D0GwbuK48+5z7VDbaDfzWnIACeJwLR JjIIWzvF0dfHZGCLzH5zhRw= =pIkd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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, (continued)
- 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)
- 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)