From owner-freebsd-security Wed Oct 2 1:42:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 717CF37B406 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:42:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pegasus.wanadoo.be (pegasus.wanadoo.be [195.74.212.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E118943E3B for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:42:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@wanadoo.be) Received: from nemesis.euronet.be (inphobia.office.be.wanadoo.com [195.74.207.35]) by pegasus.wanadoo.be (8.12.0/8.12.0) with SMTP id g928g475028313 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 10:42:05 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 10:42:03 +0200 From: Nick Nauwelaerts To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD's tar susceptible to this? Message-Id: <20021002104203.3abf8486.nick@wanadoo.be> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20021001113225.034331b0@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20021001104558.00d3f900@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20021001113225.034331b0@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-unknown-openbsd3.1) X-Face: *=F*],{/L+"n0:jcG_+H@{$PsEWe]S[;DyQh3c)%M1@4jsmih3ro|CRLlJ9/DsQWt3M}!x#l@? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DCC-wanadoo-be-Metrics: pegasus 1023; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 11:35:03 -0600 Brett Glass wrote: > Unfortunately, GNU tar has become so pervasive > that even OpenBSD (which avoids GNU software) uses > it. Gotta break this dependency upon GPLed code. FreeBSD's, NetBSD's & OpenBSD's tar/pax is BSD licensed, not GLPed. // nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message