Consider double-licensing under the GPL v3

[YeldhamDev]

This was lightly talked in the Discord group, but it's better to have this request in an actual public space: the current license for libclamav (GPL v2-only) makes it very limiting to create tooling using it, for example:

• You can't use the popular Qt GUI toolkit (LGPL v3), which hampers integration with desktop environments such as KDE Plasma.
• You can't used anything that contains the Apache 2.0 license (like watchdog, a Python library for file watching).

This could be solved by making it also available under the GPL v3, which would greatly improve compatibility with other libraries.

[Kreijstal]

uhm, you can just take the code and integrate it, it automagically becomes gpl3? no dual license required

[Kreijstal]

nevermind I didnt know it wasnt compatible
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/8m8ori/can_any_reasonably_big_project_move_from_gplv2_to/
well just use it for personal use

[micahsnyder]

I will consult with our lawyer to find out their view on this request. Cisco owns the copyright for ClamAV and has the right to relicense it as needed. But I do not know if it is something we/they would want to do.

[YeldhamDev]

@micahsnyder Thank you.