On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:47:47 +0400 Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@gmail.com> wrote:
Whan submitting update to the klamav package I faced a resistence from the legal team:
clamav is a registered trademark (3475248 and 3475245) of Sourcefire, Inc. Can you confirm that permission exists from Sourcefire, Inc to use the KDE3 frontend with the very similar name klamav? https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746338
Whoever gave you that message referenced protected bug report. Following link one goes there, log in and hit a closed door which is annoying, and could be prevented with simple note "(protected)".
I think I cannot provide such permission. I think the original submitter of this package should do.
You are right. In general asking for permission at the time of packaging is too late, as renaming in case of modestly complex software can be much more work then to rename files. Taking that once upon a time there was no problem, and now there is, or could be, it is good time to research alternatives. According to the: http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/download/packages/packages-linux/ (section SUSE) there is ClamAV package in: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security and there is one, clamav-0.97.3 which is the latest available. Last activity on KlamAV project is dated 2009-02-28 (3 years ago). Last activity on ClamAV project is 2012-02-07 (taken from ChangeLog listed at http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/download/sources/ ). -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org