Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2017 11:47:42 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
Cc: "Paul G. Allen" <pgallen@gmail.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Yes you have standing to sue GRSecurity
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On Sat 2017-07-29 22:55:22, David Lang wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2017, Paul G. Allen wrote:
>=20
> >>It's not even clear that there is infringement.  The GPL merely
> >>requires that people who have been distributed copies of GPL'ed code
> >>must not be restricted from further redistribution of the code.  It
> >>does not require that that someone who is distributing it must
> >>available on a public FTP/HTTP server.
>=20
> what I have seen reported is that they are adding additional restrictions,
> that if any of their customers redistribute the source, their contract wi=
th
> grsecurity is terminated.

Question is if this is legal thing to do.

Because if it is, there could be other "more interesting" abuses of
the GPL (*), and we may want GPLv4 to fix it.

									Pavel

(*) Such as: you give us million dollars. You are free to distribute
the sources under the GPL, but if you do, our contract ends and we
will not be returning the million.

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