From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin@ncsu.edu>
Cc: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Jason Dixon <jason@dixongroup.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, jirislaby@gmail.com,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 03:06:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070902020657.GP21089@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46DA18C2.1000104@ncsu.edu>
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 09:58:26PM -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote:
> Suppose you saw some other variant of *nix that had some code you wanted
> to use, but there was a gaping security hole in it. Wouldn't you patch
> it before you incorporated it? and would it be your fault if this fix
> made the code not work with the original?
>
> We took the code and fixed a gaping security vulnerability that appeared
> within the opening comment. We DO care who does what with our code, and
> we fully intend to cover our balls.
Who's "we" and would you mind showing your contributions to the tree?
git doesn't seem to find them in 2.5.0-to-current for some reason...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-02 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200709010140.l811eq9H005896@cvs.openbsd.org>
[not found] ` <200709010140.l811eq9H005896-VON6Tr2NNtkmbxgs1yVkuA@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-01 16:48 ` Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing Constantine A. Murenin
[not found] ` <f34ca13c0709010948v67b04b58lb098713dc38c4d6a-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-01 17:21 ` Jeff Garzik
[not found] ` <46D99FB7.6030505-o2qLIJkoznsdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-01 17:37 ` Constantine A. Murenin
[not found] ` <f34ca13c0709011037p221cb40fjf69651d1858df212-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-01 20:54 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-01 21:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-01 21:51 ` Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-01 22:06 ` Adrian Bunk
[not found] ` <20070901205457.GK9260-HeJ8Db2Gnd6zQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-01 21:27 ` Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-01 21:52 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-01 23:29 ` Constantine A. Murenin
[not found] ` <f34ca13c0709011629g1f16508cic7c31c3d20a57dae-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-01 23:48 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
[not found] ` <43e72e890709011648k5caffb7fn1051e1f5d5f27c9b-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-02 0:11 ` Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-02 0:09 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-02 0:53 ` Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-02 10:36 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <20070902113638.78fbd202-v58gJUvfdfWUJIigds3554dd74u8MsAO@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-02 11:20 ` Igor Sobrado
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709021303001.4312-wnk7FUYfzmtu2DZcH3qp6zJQgOOX0AMFMQBsIrBqeMw@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-02 11:50 ` Adrian Bunk
[not found] ` <20070902115041.GM16016-HeJ8Db2Gnd6zQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-02 12:28 ` Igor Sobrado
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709021416130.6181-wnk7FUYfzmtu2DZcH3qp6zJQgOOX0AMFMQBsIrBqeMw@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-02 12:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-02 12:46 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <20070902134612.28a88761-v58gJUvfdfWUJIigds3554dd74u8MsAO@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-02 13:00 ` Igor Sobrado
2007-09-02 13:12 ` Adrian Bunk
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709021446550.6181-wnk7FUYfzmtu2DZcH3qp6zJQgOOX0AMFMQBsIrBqeMw@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-02 13:53 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-02 13:57 ` Krzysztof Halasa
[not found] ` <m3642txj91.fsf-fiqtE+24Nu0B9AHHLWeGtNQXobZC6xk2@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-02 14:11 ` Jeff Garzik
[not found] ` <46DAC482.5090107-o2qLIJkoznsdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-02 15:58 ` Igor Sobrado
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709021754250.6772-wnk7FUYfzmtu2DZcH3qp6zJQgOOX0AMFMQBsIrBqeMw@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-02 18:23 ` Matthew Jacob
2007-09-05 13:22 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2007-09-02 18:21 ` Al Viro
2007-09-02 12:36 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-01 22:03 ` Sam Leffler
[not found] ` <46D9E1B8.2060300-zZXckVAlHaQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-01 22:29 ` Adrian Bunk
[not found] ` <f34ca13c0709011427u <20070901215225.GM9260@stusta.de>
[not found] ` <20070901215225.GM9260-HeJ8Db2Gnd6zQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-02 0:36 ` Jason Dixon
[not found] ` <3A831845-B630-42AD-B52F-DC9EA2060BAE-a0y0GdpcbPLlcHVOVdbKLw@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-02 1:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-02 1:39 ` Constantine A. Murenin
[not found] ` <f34ca13c0709011839yb32f419s20c259cbaabdd132-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-02 1:42 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-09-02 1:53 ` Al Viro
2007-09-02 1:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-02 1:58 ` Casey Dahlin
2007-09-02 2:06 ` Al Viro [this message]
[not found] ` <46DA18C2.1000104-e4nNhFGpWWo@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-02 2:44 ` Jason Dixon
2007-09-02 1:55 ` Adrian Bunk
[not found] ` <20070902015537.GH16016-HeJ8Db2Gnd6zQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-02 3:47 ` Valdis.Kletnieks-PjAqaU27lzQ
2007-09-02 5:09 ` Constantine A. Murenin
[not found] ` <f34ca13c0709012209x64c282b9o1fd0cb7d08690247-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-02 5:46 ` Valdis.Kletnieks-PjAqaU27lzQ
2007-09-02 2:22 ` Jonathan Gray
2007-09-02 10:18 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-01 20:30 ` Fwd: " Alan Cox
[not found] ` <20070901213052.530483c3-v58gJUvfdfWUJIigds3554dd74u8MsAO@public.gmane.org>
2007-09-01 20:57 ` Jacob Meuser
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