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posted by martyb on Sunday August 06 2017, @12:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the test-for-GPL2 dept.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/03/linux_kernel_grsecurity_sues_bruce_perens_for_defamation/

In late June, noted open-source programmer Bruce Perens warned that using Grsecurity's Linux kernel security could invite legal trouble.

"As a customer, it's my opinion that you would be subject to both contributory infringement and breach of contract by employing this product in conjunction with the Linux kernel under the no-redistribution policy currently employed by Grsecurity," Perens wrote on his blog.

The following month, Perens was invited to court. Grsecurity sued the open-source doyen, his web host, and as-yet-unidentified defendants who may have helped him draft that post, for defamation and business interference.

Grsecurity offers Linux kernel security patches on a paid-for subscription basis. The software hardens kernel defenses through checks for common errors like memory overflows. Perens, meanwhile, is known for using the Debian Free Software Guidelines to draft the Open Source Definition, with the help of others.

Linus Torvalds, who oversees the Linux kernel, has called Grsecurity's patches "garbage".

... (read the rest at the register)


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 06 2017, @10:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 06 2017, @10:55AM (#549449)

    I was there when Pruce Berens screwed the pooch and realized that MBA types could not abide by "free software", and so he came up with "open source software", and with much anal sex and negotiation, managed to birth "FOSS", that terrible acronym that haunts the free software community to this day. If only Bruce had gone the way of ESR and become a scaredy-cat ammosexual. Please send some money to ESR, he is opposed to socialized medicine, but someone in his family needs some medicine, and Open Source Medicine is just not cutting it.