[tex-k] [rhn-admin@rhn.redhat.com: RHN Errata Alert: Command execution vulnerability in dvips]

Jan Nieuwenhuizen janneke@gnu.org
Sat, 02 Nov 2002 14:33:49 +0100


Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard@kammer.uni-hannover.de> writes:

> In my opinion, the best way to go is to put dvips under the LPPL.
> Then dvips would be dvips and RedHat has to distribute it under
> another name, i.e. "dvips_broken_by_RedHat".

And you'll get xdvi_broken_by_RedHat and
texinfo.tex_broken_by_RedHat...

It's up to Red Hat to change the software in the way they think their
users will like it best.  It's up to the user to choose a distribution
that makes the choices that she likes best.

Jan.

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