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Re:Commons Clause by tannhaeuser on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @01:45PM (#17820452)
> ... even Linux gets a fair amount from people whose main use motivating modifications is hosted use which does not require contributions (because it's GPL, not AGPL.)

I'm not aware of any Linux mods not being shared upstream (or at least intended to be eventually PRed to master), except maybe grsec? Please don't give them (AWS/Azure/Google) ideas; we might soon see eg. proprietary drivers for datacenter hardware or Docker/k8s-specific kernel mods. That's a case AGPL could've prevented (though again, I don't know of any proprietary kernel mods).

Hm, come to think of it, the possibility of security-piercing the kernel, then to offer the result as a Linux VM or worse, for hosting Docker-like containers, is concerning. One reason more to buy real VMs with a verifiable standard distro installed, rather than "containers" I guess.

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Re:Commons Clause by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @06:47PM (#17822935)
> I'm not aware of any Linux mods not being shared upstream (or at least intended to be eventually PRed to master), except maybe grsec?

That's my point: they usually upstream changes even when they don't legally need to, because they benefit from the changes being upstream and not something they have to maintain in separately.

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