From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 1 10:46:29 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 E2DB237B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:46:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cithaeron.argolis.org (pool-151-200-243-89.res.east.verizon.net [151.200.243.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D899443E42 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 10:46:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from piechota@argolis.org) Received: from cithaeron.argolis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cithaeron.argolis.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g91HkPEl016134; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:46:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from piechota@argolis.org) Received: from localhost (piechota@localhost) by cithaeron.argolis.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with ESMTP id g91HkPAq016131; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:46:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cithaeron.argolis.org: piechota owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:46:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Piechota To: Brett Glass Cc: Aaron Namba , Subject: RE: Is FreeBSD's tar susceptible to this? In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20021001113225.034331b0@localhost> Message-ID: <20021001134440.V15368-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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, 1 Oct 2002, 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. Fearing the off-topic avalanche that's going to come of this... Why the GPL? It would have been just as likely to happen in BSD tar, except you'd have lots of people with their own patches that no one else could see. While the GPL isn't -- Matt Piechota To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message