>>106168537>who is this guy and what did he do?He used to be a hobby hacker who teamed up with the PaX guy to make linux secure. It worked great.
Then he figured he needed money.
But no one would pay him enough.
So then he got a US Army govt contract for 100k per year.
After that he stopped public distribution of his patch to the linux kernel and GCC (plugins).
He then added a codicil to the linux and GCC licenses (GPLv2, and GPLv2+) which stated that no redistribution of PaX/Grsecurity etc is permitted: and if someone does redisribute the patches then their contract is immediatly cancled, and all monies allready forward-paid to OpenSourceSecurity is cancled.
Yes this is a violation of article 2 section 6 of the license.
The US copyright office says that original copyright owners have the exclusive RIGHT to CONTROL ___DERIVATIVE____ works.
White people here on /g/, who hate loli, anime, pedos, YHWH, and _LOVE_ Jesus Christ for opposing child brides, and abolishing YHWH"s stone-the-woman laws and YHWH's pro-child bride laws: will tell you that since it's just a patch he can put it under whatever license he wants.
That is not so: it is a non-seperable derivative work.
Linux and GCC copyright holders (hackers, and the FSF) selected the terms that there can be NO additional restrictions on redistribution of derivative works. They did this, as Linus said; so that changes (eventually) come back to them.
Adding a negative enforcable covenant is the erection of a barrier to redistribution and is a violation of that term of the copyright license permissions.
White people here will claim I'm lying and that I'm not a lawyer.
I am a lawyer.
I am also a code hacker and programmer.