From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <1497542336.20270.87.camel@redhat.com> From: Rik van Riel Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 11:58:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha256"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-dFKWzpHA/bkdEIA85xoN" Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel? To: aconcernedfossdev@airmail.cc, ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com, ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com List-ID: --=-dFKWzpHA/bkdEIA85xoN Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 15:34 +0000, aconcernedfossdev@airmail.cc wrote: > Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly=C2=A0 > violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel? > He is also violating the license grant, Courts would not be fooled > by=C2=A0his scheme to prevent redistribution. Right now there are a few million systems that use grsecurity, and over a billion systems that are not protected by grsecurity functionality. Removing grsecurity from the community has been an impetus to finally get the grsecurity functionality into the upstream kernel, where it can benefit the billion systems that do not have it today. > Why does not one person here care? > Just want to forget what holds Libre Software together and go the way > of=C2=A0BSD? What holds Linux together is community. The license is one of many aspects to that community, but far from the only one. GRSecurity has been outside of the community for years, and their customer restriction "you can redistribute this code, but if you do we will on longer provide you with updates" does not change that. Having the remaining developers who are interested in hardening work on getting more functionality upstream, now that the grsecurity patches are no longer available to non-customers, is likely a good thing for everybody. Want to help out? Join us in ##linux-hardening on irc.freenode.net. kind regards, Rik van Riel --=20 All rights reversed --=-dFKWzpHA/bkdEIA85xoN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAABCAAGBQJZQq7AAAoJEM553pKExN6Dt38H/ijn7eut8qRqlAHOKRY1L0GE cB9Iy7Nt6HlmyxkJ4EYWLUxofi/MWrIash5aM4vZZD2BMJ3SLjGeSxbk7fMNfhQ6 vZHVZ4ZGWEkinmxjDD/Vz7n6GawssTtkLVR03/yMO65zTvs2D2QIPDPhEX3wb33d Gt/dQFPrbz9WvQIJZoEhQLyUcLaSsNBVmckAnxaLa9XsNwfyDeR8JoOBY1hKwszc WgU0Sb92miCLDvb1blkn/6T2UE4e7ev/amhdiEB0c1yXUWUM+WG9CU8KW561DTKe G3fMyvX9UqzkdiwksGBgMlM6d6wKM5i2G5GgcR1QXJTZSecxWMYzRMIp0Uk8miU= =w8A4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-dFKWzpHA/bkdEIA85xoN--