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