Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:23:03 +0100 (CET)
From: Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@...e.de>
To: xvendor@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: "going public"

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Martin Schulze wrote:

> 
> 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.
They are private until CRD. And thats the point. That xvendor
can become something like a 2nd level cache of vendor-sec.

> 
> > 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.
> 
This does not suffice to make it an accepted list.
I guess not much people remember this.

l8er,
S.

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