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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>, kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bitkeeper licence issues
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:06:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020319220631.GA1758@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020318212617.GA498@elf.ucw.cz> <20020318144255.Y10086@work.bitmover.com> <20020318231427.GF1740@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> <20020319002241.K17410@suse.de>

Hi!

>  > > Pavel, the problem here is your fundamental distrust.  
>  > By giving me binary-only installer you ask me to trust you. You ask me
>  > to trust you without good reason [it only generates .tar.gz and
>  > shellscript, why should it be binary? Was not shar designed to handle
>  > that?], and that's pretty suspect.
> 
>  Bitmover doing anything remotely suspect in an executable installer
>  would be commercial suicide, do you distrust realplayer too?

Actually, the installer contains security hole allowing any user to
overwrite any file on system if you install it as root with simple
symlink. [Its easy to fix, and I hope they fix it in next version.]

Do you see why I hate binary installers, now?
									Pavel
-- 
(about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly.  However, I really think that the U.S.
no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-19 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-18 21:26 Bitkeeper licence issues Pavel Machek
2002-03-18 22:42 ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-18 23:14   ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-18 23:22     ` Dave Jones
2002-03-18 23:43       ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-19  8:35         ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-19  2:02       ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-19  8:21         ` Gerd Knorr
2002-03-19 15:11           ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-19 21:58         ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-19 22:04           ` Larry McVoy
     [not found]         ` <20020319215800.GN12260@atrey.karlin.m__.cuni.cz>
2002-03-20 22:42           ` Ton Hospel
2002-03-19 22:06       ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-03-19 23:25         ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-19 23:27           ` David S. Miller
2002-03-19 23:44             ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-19 23:45               ` David S. Miller
2002-03-19 23:54                 ` Matthew Kirkwood
2002-03-19 23:56               ` Ben Collins
2002-03-20 17:23               ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-20 17:51                 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-20 18:04                   ` Martin Dalecki
2002-03-20 20:34                     ` Neil Booth
2002-03-19 23:34           ` Tom Rini
2002-03-20  0:09             ` Alan Cox
2002-03-24 11:44             ` Thunder from the hill
2002-03-20  7:57           ` Alexander Viro
2002-03-19  0:00     ` yodaiken
2002-03-19  1:29       ` David S. Miller
2002-03-19  1:18   ` Roman Zippel
2002-03-19  1:37     ` David S. Miller
2002-03-19 18:42       ` Roman Zippel
2002-03-19 19:09         ` Alan Cox
2002-03-19 20:01           ` Shane Nay
2002-03-19 23:08           ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-19 23:19             ` Robert Love
2002-03-19 23:26               ` Rik van Riel
2002-03-19 23:42                 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-03-19 23:31             ` yodaiken
2002-03-19 23:47               ` Larry McVoy
2002-03-20  0:02                 ` Thomas Dodd
2002-03-20  0:19                 ` Theodore Tso
2002-03-20  0:57                   ` Petko Manolov
2002-03-21 19:44                 ` Mark H. Wood
2002-03-21 20:29                   ` Shane Nay
2002-03-27 14:40                 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-03-20  0:05               ` James Simmons
2002-03-19 20:35                 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-03-20  0:14                 ` Kurt Ferreira
2002-03-20  2:16                   ` Greg Hennessy
2002-03-20  0:57             ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-21 19:14           ` Roman Zippel
2002-03-21 20:54             ` Alan Cox
2002-03-22  0:02               ` Roman Zippel
2002-03-19  1:44     ` Anton Altaparmakov

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