Re: RIP hardened-sources

Alex Efros <[email protected]> Sat, 29 Apr 2017 16:11:49 +0300

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.gentoo.hardened
Organization	http://powerman.name/
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

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. 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 - they will have to distribute patched source
too (so it'll became available to users of these computers), and that
patched source will have GPL2 license… so any of these users/employees may
publish these sources, and org/company can't prohibit this without
violating GPL2… correct?

Or this will be sort of "sure, you may publish these sources, but then we
may fire you - everyone has rights, right to publish any GPL2 sources he
has access to and right to fire any employee for no specific reason"?

-- 
			WBR, Alex.

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