Grsecurity GPL Violations: Linus/FSF/SFConservancy won't defend. Claw back your copyrights. BSD-in-Practice was not the deal.
From: nipponmail
Date: Sat Jan 02 2021 - 03:10:34 EST
Silence is consent.
Are there FOSS developers making decent money via Patreon, GoFundMe,
whatever?
Yes, Grsecurity is making good money.
They simply added a no-redistribution agreement to their patch of the
Linux Kernel.
(
https://perens.com/2017/06/28/warning-grsecurity-potential-contributory-infringement-risk-for-customers/
)
The FSF, Software Freedom Conservancy, and the Corporate Linux Kernel
Developers all agree that this is fine (silence is consent).
https://twitter.com/spendergrsec/status/1293155787859206146
Importantly, neither the FSF nor the SFC, nor in fact any actual lawyer
agrees with this bizarre claim from an anonymous troll. More info about
the source of the claim can be found here:
https://grsecurity.net/setting_the_record_straight_on_oss_v_perens_part1
Thanks for doing your part, "Dr" to continue the troll's harrassment
LOL. " #GRSecurity violates both the Linux kernel's copyright and the
#GCC #copyright by forbidding redistribution of the patches (in their
Access Agreement): which are non-seperable derivative works...
Contributors should blanket-revoke their contributions from all
free-takers since they didn't agree to BSD-in-Practice. They should also
claw-back any transferred copyrights from the FSF using the 30 year
clawback provision in the US Copyright Act. Design of how a program
works is a copyrightable aspect (Ex: How RMS designed GCC 30 years ago
or so etc)
Had to repost this because the linux admins deleted the email:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/12/28/2518
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Grsecurity GPL Violations: Bring a CASE act claim every time GrSecurity
releases a new infringing work?
(GRSecurity blatantly violates the clause in the Linux kernel and
GCC copyright licenses regarding adding addtional terms between the
licensee of the kernel / gcc and furthur down-the-line licensees,
regarding derivative works)
(The linux kernel has 1000s of copyright holders)
(All who shake at the knees at the thought of initiating a federal
Copyright lawsuit)