On 15 June 2017 at 16:41, <aconcernedfoss...@airmail.cc> wrote: > Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly > violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel? > He is also violating the license grant, Courts would not be fooled by his > scheme to prevent redistribution. > > The license grant the Linux Kernel is distributed under disallows the > imposition of additional terms. The making of an understanding that the > derivative work must not be redistributed (lest there be retaliation) is > the imposition of an additional term. The communication of this threat is > the moment that GRSecurity violates the license grant. Thence-forth > modification, making of derivative works, and distribution of such is a > violation of the Copyright statute. The concoction of the transparent > scheme shows that it is a willful violation, one taken in full knowledge by > GRSecurity of the intention of the original grantor. > > > Why does not one person here care? >
because we are all suffering from troll envy....... The pseudo-angst ridden discussions about systemd on the site here are not quite as seductive as this post....... We can feign some fake outrage and bask in it for a time and then decide that we must "get a life" as Bill Shatner advised the trekkies all those years ago. Where would we be without spam and trolling? MF > Just want to forget what holds Libre Software together and go the way of > BSD? > > > (Note: last month the GRSecurity Team removed the public testing patch, > they prevent the distribution of the patch by paying customers by a > threat of no further business: they have concocted a transparent scheme > to make sure the intention of the Linux rights-holders (thousands of > entities) are defeated) (This is unlike RedHat who do distribute their > patches in the form the rights-holders prefer: source code, RedHat does > not attempt to stymie the redistribution of their derivative works, > GRSecurity does.). > > ------ > ( This song is about GRSecurity's violation of Linus et al's copyright**: > youtube.com/watch?v=CYnhI3wUej8 > (A Boat Sails Away 2016 17) ) > > >
