o'reor's Journal: Sourcefire acquires ClamAV

As reported by Linuxfr.org, the Sourcefire company, specialized in computer and network security products, announced last Friday "that it has acquired ClamAV(TM), a leading open source gateway anti-virus and anti-malware project" and hired the five lead developers. The ClamAV project has set up a FAQ to explain what are the consequences of the acquisition, explaining that "Sourcefire is totally committed to investing in ClamAV as an open source project licensed under the GPL.", without mentioning what would happen to the virus database updates.

Unfortunately, in the past Sourcefile has acquired project Snort and a subscription is now required to access the latest updates of the Snort databases. Which leaves us worried about the future of ClamAV as a free software project...