From: "PaX Team" <pageexec@freemail.hu>
To: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] RIP hardened-sources
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 15:46:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5904994E.14957.457CA97@pageexec.freemail.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170429131149.GQ28917@home.power>
On 29 Apr 2017 at 16:11, Alex Efros wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 01:49:20PM +0200, Luis Ressel wrote:
> > in case anyone hasn't read in on LWN yet, here's what I'm talking
> > about: https://grsecurity.net/passing_the_baton.php
>
> Sorry for OT, but is this legal? Or, more correct, is this will works?
>
> Sure, they can sell their patch to Linux kernel without opensourcing that
> patch.
granted that 'open source' is a rather loaded term these days, i think it
never meant 'available to the public' (shareware would be 'open source' too
then), just that the license is 'open' (whose definition the FSF and others
don't necessarily agree on either). there's plenty of 'open source' licenced
code that never sees the light of day outside of a group of users.
> But at soon as their customers (say, some government org or large
> company) will APPLY that patch to Linux kernel and try to DISTRIBUTE that
> kernel on their computers
there's no need to speculate on this, the FSF has already answered it:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.en.html#InternalDistribution
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-29 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-29 11:49 [gentoo-hardened] RIP hardened-sources Luis Ressel
2017-04-29 12:47 ` Alex Efros
2017-04-29 15:56 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2017-04-29 16:52 ` Javier Juan Martinez Cabezon
2017-04-29 16:58 ` Luis Ressel
2017-04-30 8:15 ` Javier Juan Martinez Cabezon
2017-04-29 17:04 ` Luis Ressel
2017-04-29 18:43 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2017-04-29 20:34 ` "Tóth Attila"
2017-04-29 22:04 ` Brant Williams
2017-04-30 13:00 ` Andrew Savchenko
2017-04-30 13:16 ` Alex Efros
2017-04-30 14:34 ` Andrew Savchenko
2017-04-30 14:56 ` "Tóth Attila"
2017-04-30 13:07 ` Andrew Savchenko
2017-04-29 13:11 ` Alex Efros
2017-04-29 13:46 ` PaX Team [this message]
2017-04-29 16:46 ` Alex Efros
2017-04-30 11:08 ` Alex Efros
2017-04-30 11:50 ` SK
2017-04-30 11:55 ` SK
2017-04-30 12:32 ` Andrew Savchenko
2017-04-30 12:56 ` Alex Efros
2017-04-30 13:28 ` Andrew Savchenko
2017-04-30 13:07 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2017-04-29 15:30 ` Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
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