Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933897AbXIBCHS (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 22:07:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757816AbXIBCHG (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 22:07:06 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:55963 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754466AbXIBCHE (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 22:07:04 -0400 Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 03:06:57 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Casey Dahlin Cc: "Constantine A. Murenin" , Jeff Garzik , Jason Dixon , 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 Message-ID: <20070902020657.GP21089@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <200709010140.l811eq9H005896@cvs.openbsd.org> <46D99FB7.6030505@garzik.org> <20070901205457.GK9260@stusta.de> <20070901215225.GM9260@stusta.de> <3A831845-B630-42AD-B52F-DC9EA2060BAE@dixongroup.net> <46DA1315.9060002@garzik.org> <46DA18C2.1000104@ncsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46DA18C2.1000104@ncsu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 905 Lines: 17 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... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/