1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
|
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> [Mageia-dev] Java-Policy first draft published
</TITLE>
<LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" >
<LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Java-Policy%20first%20draft%20published&In-Reply-To=%3C20110121151439.GD22712%40sisay.ephaone.org%3E">
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow">
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<LINK REL="Previous" HREF="002283.html">
<LINK REL="Next" HREF="002296.html">
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">
<H1>[Mageia-dev] Java-Policy first draft published</H1>
<B>Michael scherer</B>
<A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20Java-Policy%20first%20draft%20published&In-Reply-To=%3C20110121151439.GD22712%40sisay.ephaone.org%3E"
TITLE="[Mageia-dev] Java-Policy first draft published">misc at zarb.org
</A><BR>
<I>Fri Jan 21 16:14:39 CET 2011</I>
<P><UL>
<LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002283.html">[Mageia-dev] Java-Policy first draft published
</A></li>
<LI>Next message: <A HREF="002296.html">[Mageia-dev] Java-Policy first draft published
</A></li>
<LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B>
<a href="date.html#2294">[ date ]</a>
<a href="thread.html#2294">[ thread ]</a>
<a href="subject.html#2294">[ subject ]</a>
<a href="author.html#2294">[ author ]</a>
</LI>
</UL>
<HR>
<!--beginarticle-->
<PRE>On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:06:21AM +0100, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
><i> On 21 January 2011 00:01, nicolas vigier <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">boklm at mars-attacks.org</A>> wrote:
</I>><i> >> Shipping binary jar given by upstream tarball cause trouble because you
</I>><i> >> 1) cannot patch them in case of bug
</I>><i> >> 2) cannot see how and what was compiled
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> That's not very free software friendly, and I think we should refuse
</I>><i> >> that.
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > I've already seen while trying to package java apps, a jar being shipped,
</I>><i> > but sources not available anywhere on the internet, except after
</I>><i> > searching for a few hours on an old website on archive.org with broken
</I>><i> > link to the sources zip, and developers not aware of the issue, because
</I>><i> > they never tried to find the sources, and always used this binary .jar
</I>><i> > they found on a random web site.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> And they never though about security...
</I>
Security is not a problem , it is java, no null pointer exception /o\.
But that's not only security, there is simply bugs that happen, and API
problem ( that IMHO happens more often than security issue ).
--
Michael Scherer
</PRE>
<!--endarticle-->
<HR>
<P><UL>
<!--threads-->
<LI>Previous message: <A HREF="002283.html">[Mageia-dev] Java-Policy first draft published
</A></li>
<LI>Next message: <A HREF="002296.html">[Mageia-dev] Java-Policy first draft published
</A></li>
<LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B>
<a href="date.html#2294">[ date ]</a>
<a href="thread.html#2294">[ thread ]</a>
<a href="subject.html#2294">[ subject ]</a>
<a href="author.html#2294">[ author ]</a>
</LI>
</UL>
<hr>
<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev
mailing list</a><br>
</body></html>
|
