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>>>>> On Wed, 23 Jun 2021, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>> It's just not available for everyone for free/without registration |
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>> anymore. But it is still a thing in Gentoo. |
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> Your comment makes it sounds like 'just registering' is an option. |
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> The website seems to disagree with that, pretty clearly saying it's |
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> a yearly subscription. How much? They don't say but it's reasonable to |
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> assume it's a steep price. Wouldn't be surprised if people are |
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> forbidden from saying. |
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Apparently it was $17k per year, in 2016: |
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https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2016-05/msg00114.html |
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> But even if they offered me a free copy I wouldn't take it. They have |
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> violated the principles of GPL and harmed the FLOSS world. If you care |
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> about open source, you wouldn't pay them a broken penny. If you do, you |
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> just support their actions and soon enough more GPL projects will figure |
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> out that they can steal all their contributions and declare themselves |
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> 'keep paying and do not share the code as GPL permits you to'. |
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This has been discussed at length, and I don't think we need to |
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reiterate it here. |
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My point was that most developers cannot test if the pax_kernel flag in |
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a given package does what it should. IMHO the consequence is that we |
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can no longer consider PaX a supported configuration. |
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Ulrich |
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