Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

aconcernedfossdev at airmail.cc aconcernedfossdev at airmail.cc
Thu Jun 15 19:13:37 UTC 2017


Nice to know you view legal matters as "crap".

What does that make those who work in the legal field, oh queen?

On 2017-06-15 17:04, W Stacy Lockwood wrote:
> Take this crap to LKML where ALL the kernel developers who matter,
> are.
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> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:49 AM, <aconcernedfossdev at airmail.cc>
> wrote:
> 
>> Because some of you on this list may very well be linux kernel
>> contributors and this is a fairly new development (month old) of a
>> developing issue (1 year old). It's crossed the Rubicon now though
>> and it's time for a joint filing. It is time to _SUE_.
>> 
>> On 2017-06-15 16:45, Tom H wrote:
>> Why should we care?
>> 
>> And more importantly, why should we care within the context of
>> ubuntu-users@?!
>> 
>> Please take this elsewhere.
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:34 AM,  <aconcernedfossdev at airmail.cc>
>> wrote:
>> Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly
>> violating
>> the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?
>> He is also violating the license grant, Courts would not be fooled
>> by his
>> scheme to prevent redistribution.
>> 
>> The license grant the Linux Kernel is distributed under disallows
>> the
>> imposition of additional terms. The making of an understanding that
>> the
>> derivative work must not be redistributed (lest there be
>> retaliation) is the
>> imposition of an additional term. The communication of this threat
>> is the
>> moment that GRSecurity violates the license grant. Thence-forth
>> modification, making of derivative works, and distribution of such
>> is a
>> violation of the Copyright statute. The concoction of the
>> transparent scheme
>> shows that it is a willful violation, one taken in full knowledge by
>> GRSecurity of the intention of the original grantor.
>> 
>> Why does not one person here care?
>> Just want to forget what holds Libre Software together and go the
>> way of
>> BSD?
>> 
>> (Note: last month the GRSecurity Team removed the public testing
>> patch,
>> they prevent the distribution of the patch by paying customers by a
>> threat of no further business: they have concocted a transparent
>> scheme
>> to make sure the intention of the Linux rights-holders (thousands of
>> entities) are defeated) (This is unlike RedHat who do distribute
>> their
>> patches in the form the rights-holders prefer: source code, RedHat
>> does
>> not attempt to stymie the redistribution of their derivative works,
>> GRSecurity does.).
>> 
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>> copyright**:
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>> (A Boat Sails Away 2016 17) )
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