Re: [E-devel] [Entrance] SELinux integration

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On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:37:52 -0500 (CDT) "Ibukun Olumuyiwa"
<ib...@co...> babbled:

> *Suddenly appears out of nowhere*
> 
> NO.
> 
> No blatant copying of gdm code, even with permission. Study the algorithm
> and reimplement it, but don't copy blocks of code from GDM. Everything
> needs to be written from scratch. That's always been the design philosophy
> from the beginning -- a lot of stuff in Entrance is taken from GDM
> architecture/algorithm-wise, but I always took care to make sure I didn't
> copy code explicitly to avoid licensing problems.
> 
> Great catch btw, Raster. Thanks.

thanks ibukun - entrance is your baby after all and your word should be final :)

note - that function is not very long. it would be easy to write again. just
examine the algorithm - check what can be re-done in different logic statements
or different order (if it can) and use different variables etc.  because it is
so short - it will still be similar to the gdm function - but you should be
just copying the algorithm an using it as a reference for "oooh so THAT is the
magic function in selinux that i need to call!". :)

> Ibukun
> 
> > On 8/10/06, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <ra...@ra...> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:15:26 +0200 Mivz <mi...@al...>
> >> babbled:
> >>
> >> > Yes, I'll read it :)
> >> > Here is the patch. I'm still working on the policy files. I will
> >> finish
> >> > them when I'm graduated in a few weeks.
> >> > The patch contains a function I got from gdm.
> >>
> >> copied from gdm? verbatim? if so - this can't go into entrance (unless
> >> you
> >> change entrance's license - it becomes GPL then). you can copy the
> >> ALGORITHM
> >> and the IDEA - but NOT the code - well not without affecting licenses.
> >>
> >> essiene - beware of this. i recommend you don't accept the patch as-is.
> >> you
> >> rewrite the function from gdm.
> >
> > that's the first thing that came to my mind...
> >
> > you could also try to contact the author of that piece of code
> > (hopefully the copyright holder is mentioned somewhere in the file)
> > and ask him to re-license you that function under the 3-clause-bsd.
> >
> > Bye,
> >
> > Emme
> >
> >
> >>
> >> > Harrie Hoogeveen
> >> >
> >> > John Kraal wrote:
> >> > > I believe he is very busy finishing school at the moment ;)
> >> > >
> >> > > He'll read this though.
> >> > >
> >> > > Essien Ita Essien wrote:
> >> > >> John Kraal wrote:
> >> > >>> Great,
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> The guy already made it, but he has no idea of how to make it
> >> optional
> >> > >>> (for use in Makefile.am, configure.in, etc). Nevertheless I'll let
> >> him
> >> > >>> submit.
> >> > >>>
> >> > >> awesome.
> >> > >>> If somebody could do the makefile / configure.in, please do
> >> > >>>
> >> > >> Let him mail it to me directly me...@es..., I'll do the
> >> > >> autoKUNGfoo and send it back to him to test. And uhhh... why is
> >> _he_ not
> >> > >> on the mailing list directly himself? Entrance needs more love :),
> >> if he
> >> > >> could hack in SELinux support, we can  use some more hands _if_
> >> he's
> >> > >> interested in helping out more.
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Cheers,
> >> > >> Essien
> >> > >>
> >> > >>> Regards,
> >> > >>> John
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> Essien Ita Essien wrote:
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>>> John Kraal wrote:
> >> > >>>>
> >> > >>>>> Hello,
> >> > >>>>>
> >> > >>>>> Are there any plans for integrating SELinux in Entrance-login as
> >> of
> >> > >>>>> yet? If not, somebody here is thinking about doing it..
> >> > >>>>>
> >> > >>>>>
> >> > >>>> Hiya John,
> >> > >>>>
> >> > >>>> Its not on the current todo list.
> >> > >>>>
> >> > >>>> However, please go ahead and do this, much appreciated. Once then
> >> send
> >> > >>>> the patch to the mailing list for review, I'm not the maintainer,
> >> just a
> >> > >>>> cleaner-upper with cvs access. That said, if you send this patch
> >> in,
> >> > >>>> also copy xcomp at ib...@gm... (he finds it hard to follow
> >> the
> >> > >>>> patches on the ml, since its sooo long).
> >> > >>>>
> >> > >>>> One way or the other, the other, the friggin patch will go in :)
> >> > >>>>
> >> > >>>> *hint* Entrance need more ppl to show it more love *end hint*
> >> > >>>>
> >> > >>>> Cheers,
> >> > >>>> Essien
> >> > >>>>
> >> > >>>>> Regards,
> >> > >>>>>
> >> > >>>>> John
> >> > >>>>>
> >> > >>>>>
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