Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Article on GRSecurity, RMS, etc.

[Adam Van Ymeren]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 4:41 AM, Shawn <citypw@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not an expert of GPL compliance. I personally don't see any GPL
> violation in PaX/Grsecurity. Because of some embedded vendors pissed
> off PaX/Grsecurity's authors last year and then they decided stable
> patch was going to customer-only, which means you could get the source
> code once you paid. It's very fair to myself. Because they need to
> spend time and hire people to do the regression testing to make their
> customer's production system as stable as possible. Fortunately, they
> are still release test patch for public. As a user and a security
> consultant, test patch is good enough to deal with the most situation
> I've met.

>From what I've read.  It sounds like they are making customers sign
NDAs, and/or threatening to cut them off if the customers share the
source code for those patches to anyone.  This is clearly a violation
of freedom 2

"The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2)."

I'm not a lawyer or expert on the GPL.  The GPL may not protect
against situations like this, but it clearly goes against the spirit
of Free Software.


>
> I 'd say we are lucky to have brilliant FLOSS hackers like Spender and
> PaX team in this era. Because of them, we have a very effective
> solution for linux kernel security, which compares to other core
> infrastructures such as firmware or compiler. Even CHIPSEC and
> reproducible builds are just starting point somehow. It'd be a long
> way to protect your digital freedom away from BIGBROs just like
> PaX/Grsecurity in kernel field;-)
>
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 12:58 PM,  <concernedfossdev@teknik.io> wrote:
>> Soylent news published an article/discussion on GRSecurity, RMS, etc
>> If you're interested it's here:
>> https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/06/02/214243
>>
>>>RMS Responds - GRsecurity is Preventing Others From Redistributing Source 
>>>Code [UPDATED]
>>
>>
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> --
> GNU powered it...
> GPL protect it...
> God blessing it...
>
> regards
> Shawn
>