AVG LinkScanner Problem Solved?

If you run your own website, you might have been following the brouhaha over the new LinkScanner feature of GriSoft’s AVG virus scanner. I can’t find this text on the GriSoft website, but it was quoted in a comment on another blog I was reading today: Following is AVG’s official response to LinkScanner concerns: We’d …

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Google Gears License

Interesting Terms of Service on Google Gears… not only does it explicitly exclude open-source products from the usual disassembly prohibitions, but it enjoins you (if you develop code that uses it) to “protect the privacy and legal rights of those users” (section 5.5). Not the sort of thing you generally see in a software license, …

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