On Sat 2017-07-29 22:55:22, David Lang wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2017, Paul G. Allen wrote: > > >>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. > > what I have seen reported is that they are adding additional restrictions, > that if any of their customers redistribute the source, their contract with > 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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