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From: "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@o-sinc.com>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] The status of grsecurity upstream and hardened-sources downstream
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 13:27:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <assp.0347b27f40.20170623132731.530e18ee@o-sinc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea98b420-db01-4b70-68a3-f8f9a3f8b9cf@gentoo.org>

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On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 12:28:27 -0400
"Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> I waited two months before saying anything because the reasons were
> more of a political nature than some technical issue.  At this point,
> I think its time to let the community know about the state of affairs
> with hardened-sources.

Political is not really the correct terminology, more breach of
trademark. This was a business decision, I do not blame them!
https://grsecurity.net/announce.php
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/26/grsecurity_linux_kernel_freeloaders/

They are still available just not for free, for $200
https://grsecurity.net/purchase.php

Thanks WindRiver/Intel....
https://www.windriver.com/products/linux/security/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_River_Systems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_River_Systems#Wind_River_Linux

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-23 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-23 16:28 [gentoo-project] The status of grsecurity upstream and hardened-sources downstream Anthony G. Basile
2017-06-23 17:27 ` William L. Thomson Jr. [this message]
2017-06-23 17:49 ` Toralf Förster
2017-06-23 18:08   ` Mike Gilbert
2017-06-23 18:47   ` Michael Orlitzky
2017-06-23 18:04 ` NP-Hardass
2017-06-23 18:54 ` Alice Ferrazzi
2017-06-23 20:46 ` Sergei Trofimovich

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