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Date:      Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:04:13 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Justin Wolf <jjwolf@bleeding.com>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Displacement of Blame[tm]
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000717190213.70622I-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007131337260.38269-100000@neo.bleeding.com>

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On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Justin Wolf wrote:

> Maybe I missed it in this really long thread somewhere, but why do we have
> to say that it concerns FreeBSD at all?  If it's a bug/hole in a port, it
> has nothing to do with FreeBSD except for the fact that the user MAY have
> installed this port, which of course comes from a third party, but was
> compiled by the FreeBSD organization.
> 

Because the ports/packages are on the CDs. As "we" distribute them, it is
only nice "we" acknowlege an inform people of the vulnerabilities.

"We" being the project in this case, I guess.

[snip]

> -Justin
> 



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