End of official PaX and grsecurity support in Arch Linux
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Grsecurity is no longer open source
Henry Ross
Gabriel Morales
How do they know who to blacklist? Is it something simple as law of probably/monitoring socal media and such or custom patches that can be used unqiuely ID the sharer?
Adrian Hill
It was Libre (Free) Software.
Yes, the owner of the code, as in the original author, can reissue his code under any license.
The licenses on the old code does not expire so previous releases are still GPL.
Joseph Collins
grsecurity is a derivative work. It's based on Linux. Linux uses GPLv2, which requires that derivatives also use GPLv2, so grsecurity has to be issued under GPLv2.
But grsecurity wasn't relicensed, it's just no longer public. The people who do get copies get them under GPLv2.
Elijah Martin
As long as it's GPL2, it's good.
It's not illegal to say, distribute it only to people who purchase media or online access, so long as they are in turn allowed to enjoy the 4 freedoms (which includes redistributing).
Carter Lewis
Guess this means that anyone who wants to use a secure operating system needs to move to either OpenBSD or Qubes.
What a shame. The leader of Grsec was a douche anyway.
Camden Perry
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Brandon Bell
Literally every piece of code has been given away for free to whomever so chooses to use it. If you don't like the available BSD's, fork your own version. Some security mitigations have been used by other Linux forks, most prefer to insult us when we call them on their cancer code while they deal with horrible insecure systems. They give up security so their 'contributing devs' can write pajeet level code that works but is full with errors and thus security vulnerabilities. If you have a secure os that demands correct code, you teach a programmer to code properly.
Until governments start bankrubting bussines with lawsuits for leaking userdata due to using insecure cancer this isn't going to fix itself. They want the time constraints of correctly written code gone and simply have something functional, never mind the errors.
Keep writing shit code that argentinians, ruskis and chinks thrive in. Google literally made the hack the planet possible with their cancer android. Anyone who has a 'smart'phone is easily popped.
I have yet to meet a hacker to get into my employers fortune 500s hardened OBSD server boxes.
Allot of target rich power users have been hopping to linux in the past few years, i see new 0days almost weekly now on the darknet. It's the same insecure pile of garbage as windows since these fuckers compile the kernel while disabling most of the measure available as a stack protector.
Levi Turner
guessing someone put the squeeze on them to put in some backdoors
Mason Hill
same can be said of any license m8
just swap some variable names around to create unique versions and voila. Just like that crappy SiDiM book DRM.
you're forgetting the part where they can blacklist you from future versions if you redistribute.
one of these seems out of place