From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 1 11:24: 8 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 0E94137B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:24:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC1C643E6A for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:24:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA19802; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 12:23:42 -0600 (MDT) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook is dangerous and makes your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20021001122135.0344e410@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 12:23:30 -0600 To: Matt Piechota From: Brett Glass Subject: RE: Is FreeBSD's tar susceptible to this? Cc: Aaron Namba , In-Reply-To: <20021001134440.V15368-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20021001113225.034331b0@localhost> 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 At 11:46 AM 10/1/2002, Matt Piechota wrote: >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, It would be less likely, because the BSDs have more peer review and more careful auditing. >except you'd have lots of people with their own patches that no one else >could see. Define "lots of people." When either FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, or Darwin is patched, the others will follow. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message