full-disclosure - Re: RealVNC 4.1.1 Remote Compromise

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Message-ID: <e4c6g1$io6$1@sea.gmane.org>
Date: Tue May 16 10:40:56 2006
From: davek_throwaway at hotmail.com (Dave "No, not that one" Korn)
Subject: Re: RealVNC 4.1.1 Remote Compromise

James Evans wrote:

> And now a very important message...
>
> RealVNC is distributed under the GNU General Public License. As such,
> the complete source code of RealVNC *must* be freely distributed. When
> RealVNC (the company) received notice of this flaw in their software,
> they were quite prompt in patching it. Such action is normally worthy
> of praise. Yet, in this case, RealVNC immediately took down the source
> code to their software. While this was probably done out of fear
> rather than malice, I believe it violates both the spirit and law of
> the GNU GPL

  It's there now.  Perhaps it just took them a little longer to roll the 
release packages but they rushed the binaries out ASAP so people could get 
patched?

    cheers,
      DaveK
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