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Re:How Red Hat’s Open-Source Negligence Is Doing Actual Harm... by sanxiyn on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @03:07AM (#36583222)
Agreed. Red Hat is simply doing what grsecurity did in 2017. It is legal and does not violate any license.

https://lwn.net/Articles/721848/

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Re:How Red Hat’s Open-Source Negligence Is Doing Actual Harm... by josephcsible on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @03:23AM (#36583347)
> It is legal and does not violate any license.

That's debatable: https://perens.com/2017/06/28/warning-grsecurity-potential-c...

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Re:How Red Hat’s Open-Source Negligence Is Doing Actual Harm... by sanxiyn on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @03:45AM (#36583528)
Yes, it was controversial in 2017, but the dust settled and in six years since it was generally accepted to be legal. My point is that Red Hat is not trying something new. There are precedents and it is an explored territory.
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Re:How Red Hat’s Open-Source Negligence Is Doing Actual Harm... by ibotty on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @06:06AM (#36598196)
One big difference is that the sources are still provided. Only the "tagging" when a release happens is not.
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