Grsecurity stable patches to be limited to sponsors

Posted Aug 30, 2015 9:15 UTC (Sun) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Grsecurity stable patches to be limited to sponsors by mjg59
Parent article: Grsecurity stable patches to be limited to sponsors

It looks to me like they are not just trying to control modifications to the patches, but also any other matches applied to the same code. That seems to be going a bit far.

Grsecurity stable patches to be limited to sponsors

Posted Sep 11, 2015 11:20 UTC (Fri) by oldtomas (guest, #72579) [Link]

> It looks to me like they are not just trying to control modifications to the patches, but also any other [p]atches applied to the same code [...]

As far as I understand it -- no. They are just trying to control the use of their trademark (which I think is understandable).

Wind River can take the code and patch it all the way to Times Square and back (courtesy of the GPL), but they aren't allowed to say "lookee, grsecurity inside" (strictly speaking it isn't). That sounds pretty sane to me?