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Don't count on this recount to be correct but as far I've followed it: 200x? - grsecurity patchset is introduced and fixes a lot of bug-classes (!) and introduces lot's of security improvements to the kernel that are ground breaking and find their way in other systems like *BSD / Windows 200x-201x - code and trademarks of grsecurity get ripped from embbedded vendors - Linux foundations does nothing because they don't…
Their groundbreaking research was improvements that were directly derivative of work shipped with a license that said all derivative works must be provided under the same free license they received the work with. Your tone seems to suggest that some obligation exists that some obligation exists to do more than share the source to any improvements. This obligation is wholly and totally imaginary. Its as if someone gav…
> Their research are in no way 'directly derivative' of the linux kernel. Their implementation was based on linux
This means that it's captured under the GPL, and anyone can do as they like pursuant to the license (which grsecurity has attempted, repeatedly, to constrain in contravention of that license), and that this guy has an a-gen-da and something to sell you.