Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 14:03:11 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Matt Piechota <piechota@argolis.org>, Aaron Namba <aaron@namba1.com>, <security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: RE: Is FreeBSD's tar susceptible to this? Message-ID: <20021001134719.S67581-100000@pogo.caustic.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20021001133156.03609ec0@localhost>
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On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Brett Glass wrote: > I agree. And while folks are correct that licensing is not the only issue > here, why not take the opportunity to adopt something BSD-licensed instead? > At the same time, it would be possible to integrate bzip instead of invoking > it as a separate process. This would make it more efficient when we go to > bzip for ports and packages. Brett, i'm going to thank you on behalf of the various BSD projects for volunteering your time and skills in creating a BSD licensed tar that is GNU-tar compatable. should i expect this before or after the BSD licensed C compiler? -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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