ClamAV gets acquired by Sourcefire

Remember ClamAV the free anti-virus solution released under a GPL licence ? A long time back, I had written an article on how to install and use ClamAV anti-virus software in Linux which you might find interesting.

Well, ClamAV just got acquired by Sourcefire. Sourcefire claim themselves to be world leaders in intrusion prevention and their flagship product is Snort which is an open source tool which is used by many thousands for detection of intruders on ones servers or rather keeping them at bay.

• The bottom line of the acquisition is that all the members of the core developer team of ClamAV will now be working as the employees of Sourcefire.
• The ClamAV engine and CVD will remain under GPL.
• Sourcefire now owns the ClamAV project and related trademarks, as well as the source code copyrights held by the five principal members of the ClamAV team. Sourcefire will also assume control of the ClamAV project including: the ClamAV.org domain, web site and web site content; and the ClamAV Sourceforge project page.
• As far as end users are concerned, the company claims nothing much has changed.
  

Read the official announcement here.