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GrSecurity Kernel Patches Will No Longer Be Free To The Public
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I wish the title reflected better that GrSec is no longer following the open source spirit, even if its correct.
As far as companies "leaking" the patches, the thing is, it's also completely legal for GrSec to stop selling the code to these companies after they leaked it, effectively making stuff closed source, while technically being GPLv2 open source code.
Basically, GrSec is now in my book of "anti open source" companies.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostYou mean upstream not accepting most of their changes? Because that's what happened in reality.
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Originally posted by lunarcloud View PostCharging for something isn't against the GPL...
But isn't withholding source code against the GPL? How is this not in violation?
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq...UnreleasedMods
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Originally posted by peppercats View PostGrsecurity has never submitted an upstream patch.
https://lwn.net/Articles/315164/
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Originally posted by lunarcloud View PostCharging for something isn't against the GPL...
But isn't withholding source code against the GPL? How is this not in violation?
There are various projects like this that use GPLed code from kernel as if it was basically closed source since they only share with customers, that are obviously unlikely to share with third parties.
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Originally posted by Truth View PostWhat is it with the authors of hardening patchsets and being upstream-hostile drama-laden egomongers?
Fat lot of good such an approach did for Suhosin, and now grsec are going even more full-retard, wow.
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