[REBOL] Re: Enabling the REBOL community
From: sembazuru:crosswinds at: 10-May-2001 14:46
Hello Joel Neely
On 09-May-01, Joel Neely wrote:
JN> Hi, Terry,
JN> Good point!
JN> Terry Brownell wrote:
JN>>
JN>> This topic needs to address legal issues such as copyrights,
JN>> licenses etc. Are all modules free?
JN>>
JN> As I understand it, submitting code to CPAN is de facto making it
JN> available to the Perl community for re-use. We could certainly
JN> (with appropriate legal help and language) make such a release
JN> a prerequisite for any code submitted to UHURU.
OK, I have a question here.
I really like the ideas that are being thrown around here, but what
about security? If it is set up to automagically (or at least with a
requestor) download the latest version if available, how does one
protect from some lamer uploading a trojaned update? Or even making
sure that the first time you download a module it isn't trojaned? (Us
Amiga-folk have been having a bit of trouble with this sort of thing
over on AmiNet whenever Amiga makes an announcement that some people
don't agree with...) How does CPAN deal with this? How should UHURU
deal with it?
Pax
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