Sourcefire buys ClamAV

Sourcefire has announced the acquisition of the ClamAV anti-virus project. "Under terms of the transaction, Sourcefire has acquired the ClamAV project and related trademarks, as well as the copyrights held by the five principal members of the ClamAV team including project founder Tomasz Kojm. Sourcefire will also assume control of the open source ClamAV project including the ClamAV.org domain, web site and web site content and the ClamAV Sourceforge project page." The announcement posted to the ClamAV list says: "The core team will continue to lead the advancement of ClamAV and the CVD as employees of Sourcefire. Both the ClamAV engine and the signature database will remain under GPL." (Thanks to Alan J. Wylie).

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