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From: Cort Dougan <cort@fsmlabs.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BK patches exported. (fwd)
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:17:10 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020420161710.A10273@host110.fsmlabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020420215503.GE10549@elf.ucw.cz>

"Patch Laundering" - passing tainted patches that have been sullied with
dirty software by passing them through enough GPL code that they their
unclean history is disguised.

I should probably check that the web-server that is providing these patches
is running a BIOS whose source code was never handled by non-GPL
source-control system...

} > For the benefit of the BK haters, or more to the point for my benefit to 
} > shut up the occasional whinging I've heard about needing to use BK to get 
} > at the very latest patches from Linus' tree...
} > 
} > 	http://www.kernel.org/~dwmw2/bk-2.5/
} > 
} > It should be updated every hour on the hour, and has the last week's worth 
} > of changesets exported as patches.
} 
} Nice! *Very* nice.
} 									Pavel
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      reply	other threads:[~2002-04-20 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-20 21:55 BK patches exported. (fwd) Pavel Machek
2002-04-20 22:17 ` Cort Dougan [this message]

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