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On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:24:03 -0400 |
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Seemant Kulleen <seemant@g.o> wrote: |
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> To make it more clear. If the gcc developers decided to stick some |
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> malicious code into gcc, it affects the entire linux community, the |
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> entire BSD community and would take out a few other communities as |
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> well. The effects are far reaching and shared by everyone. If an |
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> official package manager is outside of Gentoo's control, and the |
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> maintainer(s) of that piece of software decide to do anything |
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> malicious (examples: inject some dodgy code, remove documentation, |
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> take out access to the repository, etc) for whatever reason (say, |
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> they get pissed off at a few Gentoo people and decide that the entire |
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> Gentoo community can be painted that way), then |
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... Gentoo developers can take the latest release of said package |
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manager and continue development from that. That's the wonderful thing |
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about the GPL, no? |
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