[927] in SIPB_Linux_Development
No subject found in mail header
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Tue Jan 31 15:03:53 1995
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: alexp@MIT.EDU, reidmp@MIT.EDU, ellis@MIT.EDU, warlord@MIT.EDU,
linux-dev@MIT.EDU, ppt@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 15:03:36 EST
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
Naomi said:
>If a user needs to say "add linux;maple" rather than "add
>maple;maple", this puts the difference (and source) of support out front and
>makes it more visible.
Greg said:
>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.
I don't have a vested interest in this personally and am open to suggestion-
is there some way to reconcile making "add maple; maple" work on Linux
machines with a way to make obvious the fact that Linux Third Party software
is not being supported in the "standard" Athena way? (And still have some
degree of access security).
Alex
