PaX / Grsecurity enforced memory safety via kernel edits on all programs including C programs 26 years ago. More than a quarter century ago this problem was solved. Then in 2017 or 2019 or so they decided to violate the Linux and GCC copyrights by adding a “no redistribution” clause (and a choice of venue clause too) that runs counter to the ban on additional terms in the copyright license memorandum of Linux and GCC (gpl). Bruce Perens then noted this copyright violation and then Grsecurity (Open Source Security) sued him for libel and then lost and had to pay Bruce’s court and attorneys fees. Grsecurity argued in front of the appellate court that adding this clause is not a copyright violation: the judges just seemed to shake their heads in the video not buying it. However the issue was libel and not federal copyright. Linux had previously entered the security biz with nsa Linux: thus the fair use exception in the more recent Oracle/Google Supreme Court case does not necessarily help Grsecurity. Linus refuses to sue and anyone that asks on the lkml is censored and banned. There are auto spam filters to prevent all discussion. RMS also refuses to do anything. Programmers believe that a patch doesn’t have to obey the copyright of the parent work and constantly claim that if you just distribute a diff file you can do as you please. They ban you if you point out that a diff is an annotation and is a derivative work and the US Copyright office says the original copyright owner has the right to control derivative works. They then call you a myspginist when you point this out and say you’re insane and will never be a lawyer etc.
>(Ferris was done before rust too; and better)
no one likes ferris here?
>>109246521There are people who like Ferris here. The problem is, this is a very tired topic that's not really actionable. Did Grsecurity break the law? Yes. Can any of us do anything about it? Not really.
>>109247702Nearly any of the 10000 copyright holders to Linux could initiate a lawsuit, and it is a continuing violation: so it is actionable .Lkml filters and bans anyone from talking about it. All the hackers have been spurned and ejected and all the newer contributors are paid employees from intel ibm and Microsoft. They have rewritten all the hacker code in more recent versions of Linux and bragged about it and have removed that hacker code they couldn’t understand (Hans Reiser ).Never the less all that work is still a derivative work of the original. Linus gets 12 million dollars per year from said companies
>>109247702It is actionable
Who here likes Felix ( aka Ferris) What do you like about him?
>>109247702If you are a prosecutor you could independently pursue Grsecurity for criminal copyright violations: their income off of it is above the threshold. Independently from the copyright holder’s civil claims and inaction.Are you a prosecutor that likes Ferris?
>>109249214>and have removed that hacker code they couldn’t understand (Hans Reiser ).Reiser has been in a California prison for decades and reiserfs languished without him; regardless of its technical merits, almost nobody used it after Hans strangled Nina Shishkin and others tried to keep it going and release the next generation of reiserfs (reiser4), but seem to have given up tracking the kernel a few years ago; the last major update to reiser4 dates to the 2010s and the last update of any kind was 4 years agoare you volunteering to take up reiserfs development and maintenance, or to pay software engineers to do it?
