Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:52:28 -0500 From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> To: "Matt Piechota" <piechota@argolis.org>, "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org> Cc: "Aaron Namba" <aaron@namba1.com>, <security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: [OT] Re: Is FreeBSD's tar susceptible to this? Message-ID: <031201c2697b$b1de6070$8204dca7@northamerica.corp.microsoft.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20021001113225.034331b0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20021001122135.0344e410@localhost>
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That has absolutely nothing to do with the license of any software product. That was very much picking on GPL for more selfish reasons than this tar security notice. ;) Tom Veldhouse ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org> To: "Matt Piechota" <piechota@argolis.org> Cc: "Aaron Namba" <aaron@namba1.com>; <security@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 1:23 PM Subject: RE: Is FreeBSD's tar susceptible to this? > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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