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

[aconcernedfossdev at airmail.cc]

Because some of you on this list may very well be linux kernel 
contributors and this is a fairly new development (month old) of a 
developing issue (1 year old). It's crossed the Rubicon now though and 
it's time for a joint filing. It is time to _SUE_.


On 2017-06-15 16:45, Tom H wrote:
> 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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