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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 11:54:12 JST 翠星石
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@koimoa @PurpCat I'd just like to interject for a moment.

liblzma is public domain with source code, which makes it free software and not "open source"; https://blog.opensource.org/public-domain-is-not-open-source

It's amazing how many people keep getting this wrong.

The article of course claims that the backdoor compromises openssh itself, but actually it requires openssh to be compiled against libsystemd for it to function.
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  Public Domain Is Not Open Source
  
  from OSI Policy Team
  
  Open Source and Public Domain are frequently confused. Here’s why it’s a mistake to treat the two terms as synonyms. Plenty of people assume that public domain software must be open source. While i…
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  Koi (koimoa@binky.fish)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 11:54:13 JST Koi
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  @PurpCat I'm gonna need to see your loicense mate, can't have ya do fuck all over this open source software
  
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