Grsecurity® is an extensive security enhancement to the Linux kernel that defends against a wide range of security threats through intelligent access control, memory corruption-based exploit prevention, and a host of other system hardening that generally require no configuration. It has been actively developed and maintained for the past 14 years. Commercial support for grsecurity is available through Open Source Security, Inc.
In a big red block at the top of their home page is the following warning:
Important Notice Regarding Public Availability of Stable Patches
Due to continued violations by several companies in the embedded industry of grsecurity®'s trademark and registered copyrights, effective September 9th 2015 stable patches of grsecurity will be permanently unavailable to the general public. For more information, read the full announcement.
And I thought GRSecurity was based on the GPL'd work called "Linux". Guess I was wrong.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 07 2015, @09:52AM
But the GPL does promise that you can do what you like with it, without any restriction other than preserving GPL terms. So, it only takes one person to subscribe to their "improvements", and publish them for everyone to use.
That's why the market value of Free Software is $0.00 and Linux users are smelly freetard neckbeards who beg on street corners.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 07 2015, @10:51PM
beggars in IN make over 100k, AND they have neckbeards!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 07 2015, @11:13PM
>That's why the market value of Free Software is $0.00 and Linux users are smelly freetard neckbeards who beg on street corners.
They make a deal with a devil and then wish not to give him his due when it turns out that the deal was exactly as stated:
We give you something for "free", you give us the best years of your lives.