Re: Bug#726393: general: Possible malware infections in source packages
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Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> schrieb:
>On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:19:38 +0200, "Thijs Kinkhorst"
><thijs@debian.org> wrote:
>>I'm missing why the package cannot use the EICAR test virus signature
>for
>>its purposes.
>
>eicar.com does not have a distributable license.
I do not think it is actually copyrightable software. It is a string that was agreed in to trigger antivirus scanners, so it is more or less a protocol. Consider the downloads at eicar.com reference implementations.
TINLA, IANAL.
- -nik
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