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Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest
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Peter Bex |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest |
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Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:50:26 +0200 |
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 01:44:48PM -0700, Kon Lovett wrote:
> In the "format-compiler-base" used by "error-utils" in "check-errors"
> situation nothing got linked, only packaged. Unless "errorf" is
> actually used then no linkage occurs. (And, at the time, the only
> module using "errorf" was "simple-units".)
>
> I'm just saying that in the "check-errors" package none of the other
> modules were actually exposed to the contagion from the GPL tainted
> "error-utils".
That may or may not be the case, but I think it's important to be
crystal clear in these matters. For us hackers it's confusing, but
for companies it's probably a deal-breaker since they'd have to put
expensive lawyers on figuring out if that's indeed the case.
Anyway, thanks for fixing it so quickly!
Cheers,
Peter
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- [Chicken-hackers] Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Jim Ursetto, 2010/08/23
- [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Kon Lovett, 2010/08/23
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Peter Bex, 2010/08/23
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Kon Lovett, 2010/08/23
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest,
Peter Bex <=
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Alaric Snell-Pym, 2010/08/24
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Peter Bex, 2010/08/24
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Alaric Snell-Pym, 2010/08/24
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Peter Bex, 2010/08/24
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Alaric Snell-Pym, 2010/08/24
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Felix, 2010/08/24
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, John Cowan, 2010/08/24
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Peter Bex, 2010/08/24
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, John Cowan, 2010/08/24
- Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: Backdoor GPL in message-digest, Magnus Achim Deininger, 2010/08/25