[923] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Third Party Linux software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jan 30 22:57:26 1995
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU, reidmp@MIT.EDU,
ellis@MIT.EDU, nschmidt@MIT.EDU, warlord@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Jan 1995 18:46:25 EST."
<199501302346.SAA18557@glacier.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 22:57:29 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
I wrote:
> We are willing to provide disk space in the SIPB AFS cell; for
> instance, /mit/maple/linuxbin could be a symlink to
> /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/linux/lockers/maple/bin. We don't expect
> users to be referencing the linux locker to run programs like Maple,
> though.
I didn't, unfortunately, think this through carefully enough. We do
not have the facilities in the SIPB AFS cell for protecting commercial
software from use by people oustide of MIT. Although we might be able
to use IP-based ACLs to restrict the readability of software, we're
not confident of our ability to maintain these restrictions in a
situation where there might be legal liability. Therefore, it would
be very much preferrable if Athena AFS space were used for the
deployment of third-party Linux software.
Therefore, such software should just be placed in /mit/maple/linuxbin,
/mit/tecplot/linuxbin, etc., following the same conventions as for
other platforms. You can use the accounts I created on
quiche-lorraine for this.
My apologies for the confusion.
