[OT] Re: Is FreeBSD's tar susceptible to this?

From: Thomas T. Veldhouse (veldy@veldy.net)
Date: 10/01/02 

From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>
To: "Matt Piechota" <piechota@argolis.org>, "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:52:28 -0500

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
>
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