Kernelsources writeable for everyone?!



Hi,
may be this was reported/asked 999999999 times, but here ist the 1000000000th:

I have downloaded linux-2.6.17.1 10 min ago and I noticed that every file is
writeable by everyone. What's going on there?

coffee src # tar -jtvf linux-2.6.17.1.tar.bz2
drwxrwxrwx git/git 0 2006-06-20 11:31:55 linux-2.6.17.1/
-rw-rw-rw- git/git 462 2006-06-20 11:31:55 linux-2.6.17.1/.gitignore
-rw-rw-rw- git/git 18693 2006-06-20 11:31:55 linux-2.6.17.1/COPYING
-rw-rw-rw- git/git 89536 2006-06-20 11:31:55 linux-2.6.17.1/CREDITS
drwxrwxrwx git/git 0 2006-06-20 11:31:55
linux-2.6.17.1/Documentation/
-rw-rw-rw- git/git 10581 2006-06-20 11:31:55
linux-2.6.17.1/Documentation/00-INDEX
[...]


regards
Daniel Buschke
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