Quoting Bruce Perens (br...@perens.com): > So, what you are saying is that you are permitted to redistribute the > latest grsecurity patch, but that the company will as a penalty disallow > you from further being their customer or receiving any additional versions > of the patch. And this might not be written down, but it's their policy. > > The punitive action is not incidental, it is a direct punishment for the > taking of an action which the GPL requires to be permitted. > > I don't think a judge would have an problem with seeing this as a > deliberate contract violation.
IMO this confuses the right to distribute a work (patchsets already provided) with the right to distribute entirely different works (patchsets produced after termination of contract). Future support and maintenance are just not part of a licensee's obligations under GPLv2, irrespective of what theory of law you're applying. As always, though, the only view that ultimately matters is the judge's. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
