Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 16:40:37 +0000 From: linuxgpletc@redchan.it To: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@metux.net> Cc: Ivan Ivanov <qmastery16@gmail.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, misc@openbsd.org, rms@gnu.org Subject: Fwd: Re: GRSec is vital to Linux security Message-ID: <fefdf0dc5d84105b5877b135a822a52a@redchan.it> In-Reply-To: <3efc6268-747d-0841-4249-5804fa9095ca@metux.net> References: <fe8a4e103943d671ff0ce2c4f09609f9@redchan.it> <CAAaskFDMjUzonLeHPmiy_VcB=jvQfF9giEaWcmNLKHDTqQt4BA@mail.gmail.com> <3efc6268-747d-0841-4249-5804fa9095ca@metux.net>
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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: GRSec is vital to Linux security Date: 2019-01-24 16:25 From: Boris Lukashev <blukashev@sempervictus.com> To: linuxgpletc@redchan.it You've never heard of VMware, I take it? Its a proprietary half Linux which beats GPL suits with strong arm tactics and technicalities. Unlike grsec, they don't distribute any source, because it's proof of theft... Grsecs back port work is also public, since they're public upstream patches or mailing list patches, the GCC plugins are the real magic... Those aren't as GPL as the kernel, rap is patented, respectre likely will be as well. The critical code changes they need (per CPU PGD, for one) will not be accepted as Linus has "said so." Those code bits are out there... Also, doesn't matter if their patch leaks for the most part (4.4 just did get leaked a few weeks back), as I wrote before, nobody really has the time or skill available to maintain at their level of quality... Linux might be free, but it's not something that should be run in production when there's data or resource at stake. Is the thought process that they should open up their commercial stable code for free to all? Because RHEL has the same "don't leak" policy on RHEL sources too... VMware even goes so far as to blatantly claim not to use Linux. How about Google's internal Linux? GPL is dead (has been for 20y), build the strongest defenses you can with whatever code you can get and prove, because your adversaries won't care about which license clause their tooling adheres to. Boris Lukashev Systems Architect Semper Victus -------- Original Message -------- From: linuxgpletc@redchan.it Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 05:35 PM To: bruce@perens.com Subject: Re: GRSec is vital to Linux security CC: moglen@columbia.edu,bkuhn@sfconservancy.org,compliance@sfconservancy.org,blukashev@sempervictus.com,tcallawa@redhat.com,torvalds@osdl.org
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