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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".
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(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Sunday August 06 2017, @01:30PM
You then own the copyright of the work
One doesn't own a copyright, one merely HOLDS copyright. It's a 95 year lease that starts when you die. And yes, I hold lots of copyrights, many or them registered with the copyright office. I still release them under a version of the GPL.
The GPL is a license to use the work, just as when a magazine publisher "buys" a story, what they are buying is a license to publish it, not the story itself.
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