Source code audit? [LWN.net]

Source code audit?

Posted Feb 28, 2008 23:48 UTC (Thu) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)
In reply to: Source code release by corbet
Parent article: Ten-year timeline part 4: the end and the beginning

Should you consider signing on a few volunteers to go through the code, checking for vulnerabilities? I'm willing, have a couple decades of programming experience, and I bet I'm not alone. It would be worth it to me simply to get a few more subscriptions for LWN. :-/

Of course it couldn't be allowed to add to your workload or your worry level.

As for myself, I will take a back seat to no one¹ as a believer in Free Software, and can't see how it conflicts with being a subscriber. Besides, the code isn't being distributed, so even if it were GPLv2, there'd be no breach of license.

¹Well, there is RMS. :-)

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