>>>>> On Wed, 23 Jun 2021, Michał Górny wrote: >> It's just not available for everyone for free/without registration >> anymore. But it is still a thing in Gentoo.
> Your comment makes it sounds like 'just registering' is an option. > The website seems to disagree with that, pretty clearly saying it's > a yearly subscription. How much? They don't say but it's reasonable to > assume it's a steep price. Wouldn't be surprised if people are > forbidden from saying. Apparently it was $17k per year, in 2016: https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2016-05/msg00114.html > But even if they offered me a free copy I wouldn't take it. They have > violated the principles of GPL and harmed the FLOSS world. If you care > about open source, you wouldn't pay them a broken penny. If you do, you > just support their actions and soon enough more GPL projects will figure > out that they can steal all their contributions and declare themselves > 'keep paying and do not share the code as GPL permits you to'. This has been discussed at length, and I don't think we need to reiterate it here. My point was that most developers cannot test if the pax_kernel flag in a given package does what it should. IMHO the consequence is that we can no longer consider PaX a supported configuration. Ulrich
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