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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday February 16 2020, @02:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-way-out dept.

https://www.itwire.com/open-source/linux-kernel-patch-maker-says-court-case-was-only-way-out.html

The head of security firm Open Source Security, Brad Spengler, says he had little option but to file a lawsuit against open source advocate Bruce Perens, who alleged back in 2017 that security patches issued for the Linux kernel by OSS violated the licence under which the kernel is distributed.

The case ended last week with Perens coming out on the right side of things; after some back and forth, a court doubled down on its earlier decision that OSS must pay Perens' legal costs as awarded in June 2018.

The remainder of the article is an interview with Brad Spengler about the case and the issue.

iTWire contacted Spengler soon after the case ended, as he had promised to speak at length about the issue once all legal issues were done and dusted. Queries submitted by iTWire along with Spengler's answers in full are given below:

Previously:
Court Orders Payment of $259,900.50 to Bruce Perens' Attorneys


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2020, @10:04PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 17 2020, @10:04PM (#959313)

    I almost forgot about MikeeUSA. I remember them and Spengler doing laps with each other on /. back in the day after some sort of change involving Arch's license. My vague recollection was that despite many people from all sides telling him so, Spengler couldn't stop feeding the trolls nor the fact that MikeeUSA turned into a meme for a time (like APK spam), which meant that many times there could have been multiple posters posting because they find your reactions funny, not because of some sort of honest debate.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 18 2020, @06:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 18 2020, @06:55AM (#959460)

    Why does Spengler spend a page writing about him? It sounds like an insane conspiracy theory, is Spengler well?