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Date:      Sat, 23 Dec 2017 22:18:22 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 224526] [security][feature suggestion] Closed source binaries need to be labeled in ports, and explicitly allowed by users
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--- Comment #2 from Yuri Victorovich <yuri@freebsd.org> ---
(In reply to Jan Beich from comment #1)

> Maybe the default license should be NONE

Then once the user accepts NONE, all of them will be allowed? This should b=
e a
case-by-case procedure for the user.

> linux-* infra ports have their source publically available

As long as they aren't built by a trusted by the user entity, there is no
guarantee that binary is built from the sources they are supposed to be bui=
lt
from. How do you know that firefox.deb is built from the firefox sources? Y=
ou
trust the ubuntu servers that they do that and not something else.

When the user installs FreeBSD, he implicitly trusts FreeBSD, its build
servers, its admins and port maintainers. The users doesn't automatically t=
rust
ubuntu, or redhat, just because he installed FreeBSD. We are not entitled to
tell users that other people are trustworthy, even though users trust us.

This is why linux-* should be in the same category.

---

This isn't designed to make it as easy as possible. This is designed to pre=
vent
untrusted code from making its way into the users' systems.

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