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Message-ID: <20080218075107.GR6746@finlandia.home.infodrom.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:51:07 +0100
From: Martin Schulze <joey@...odrom.org>
To: xvendor@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: "going public"
Sebastian Krahmer wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Solar Designer wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Some questions came in mind:
>
> 1. Whos actually on the list?
> 2. Whats its exact purpose? Like vendor-sec? Discussing patches/exploits?
The purpose is to discuss cross-vendor (thus the name) issues. This is
not limited to security problems, and indeed it was meant as an addition
to vendor-sec to be able to discuss other issues as well - such as license
problems with upstream cdrecord or lack of upstream maintenance of cron.
Things like that.
> 3. vendors are only willing to post private patches if its a closed list
> and they know who is subscribed
As soon as vendors are releasing their product the patches cannot be
"private" anymore, GPL forbids this, and it's the most frequently used
license.
> 4. If the purpose is clear it needs some announcement (to the dedicated
> folks) so that folks
> know about it and it soon drives itself.
Several years ago Solar posted an announcement on vendor-sec.
> 5. We should avoid a vendor-sec clone, otherwise the competition will
> destroy both lists.
It's purpose is not to discuss security issues but other issues.
Regards,
Joey
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