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

[W Stacy Lockwood]

Take this crap to LKML where ALL the kernel developers who matter, are.


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On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:49 AM, <aconcernedfossdev at airmail.cc> wrote:

> 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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