Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

[Tom H]

Why should we care?

And more importantly, why should we care within the context of ubuntu-users@?!

Please take this elsewhere.



On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:34 AM,  <aconcernedfossdev at airmail.cc> wrote:
> Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating
> the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?
> He is also violating the license grant, Courts would not be fooled by his
> scheme to prevent redistribution.
>
> The license grant the Linux Kernel is distributed under disallows the
> imposition of additional terms. The making of an understanding that the
> derivative work must not be redistributed (lest there be retaliation) is the
> imposition of an additional term. The communication of this threat is the
> moment that GRSecurity violates the license grant. Thence-forth
> modification, making of derivative works, and distribution of such is a
> violation of the Copyright statute. The concoction of the transparent scheme
> shows that it is a willful violation, one taken in full knowledge by
> GRSecurity of the intention of the original grantor.
>
>
> Why does not one person here care?
> Just want to forget what holds Libre Software together and go the way of
> BSD?
>
>
> (Note: last month the GRSecurity Team removed the public testing patch,
> they prevent the distribution of the patch by paying customers by a
> threat of no further business: they have concocted a transparent scheme
> to make sure the intention of the Linux rights-holders (thousands of
> entities) are defeated) (This is unlike RedHat who do distribute their
> patches in the form the rights-holders prefer: source code, RedHat does
> not attempt to stymie the redistribution of their derivative works,
> GRSecurity does.).
>
> ------
> ( This song is about GRSecurity's violation of Linus et al's copyright**:
> youtube.com/watch?v=CYnhI3wUej8
> (A Boat Sails Away 2016 17) )
>
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