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Grsecurity stable patches to be limited to sponsors

Grsecurity stable patches to be limited to sponsors

Posted Aug 27, 2015 17:03 UTC (Thu) by ewan (guest, #5533)
In reply to: Grsecurity stable patches to be limited to sponsors by txwikinger
Parent article: Grsecurity stable patches to be limited to sponsors

Um, no it's not. If I've modified some GPLed code, I don't have to give it to anyone at all, and I can choose to give it to a small chosen group without needing to give it to anyone else. I can't stop those people passing it on, but that's different.

If I use section 3b of the GPL and give them a written offer for the source code, then it's true that the offer must be valid for third parties. However, if I choose 3a and just givn the people to whom I distribute binaries the source code at the same time, then there's no obligation on me to distribute either the binaries or the source code to anyone else at all.


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Posted Aug 27, 2015 17:15 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Note that, if you give them the binary and OFFER them the source, then that is sufficient to trigger the "written offer" provisions.

Okay, that's not what rms and the FSF intended, but to be strictly legal, unfortunately you need to *force* them to accept the source at the same time as the binary :-(

Cheers,
Wol


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