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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>

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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


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