On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:39 AM, <[email protected]> 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? > 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.). >
Okay, I'll bite. Fedora, as a matter of policy, only ships one kernel variant, the upstream kernel. We have never used the PaX/grsec patchset as it is fundamentally incompatible with other security mechanisms we use in Fedora and breaks userspace without concern. So, the whole matter of what PaX/grsec do is pretty much irrelevant to Fedora because we never shipped it. I'm sure there are people who are concerned about this matter, but as a project, Fedora is not really involved in that mess. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
