<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:11 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fons@kokkinizita.net">fons@kokkinizita.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 04:49:59PM -0400, drew Roberts wrote:<br>
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> Does the software world need a better way to handle this reputation issue?<br>
> (The rest of the world in general as well perhaps?) Is there any way to build<br>
> a signed binary where this can be checked from within the binary itself?<br>
> Perhaps stick the signature at the end of the binary and have the signing<br>
> routine check all but the area that holds the signature? (Not well thought<br>
> out, just an off the cuff idea.)<br>
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</div>Nothing new is needed. Except maybe a more widespread awareness<br>
that if the free software world is turned into the Far West it's<br>
not going to last.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Is releasing changes to other peoples' software really the equivalent of "the Far West"?<br>
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Isn't that the entire point of releasing something under the GPL instead of, say, a shared source license?<br><br>If you don't like the work he did, by all means, disassociate yourself from it, but please, don't say that you're not going to release any more software just because someone released a change to a GPL program of yours.<br>
<br>Jeremy<br>