Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 12:23:30 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Matt Piechota <piechota@argolis.org> Cc: Aaron Namba <aaron@namba1.com>, <security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Is FreeBSD's tar susceptible to this? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20021001122135.0344e410@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20021001134440.V15368-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20021001113225.034331b0@localhost>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4.3.2.7.2.20021001122135.0344e410>