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| From: | "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-project@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-project] The status of grsecurity upstream and hardened-sources downstream | ||
| Date: | Fri, 23 Jun 2017 17:27:41 | ||
| Message-Id: | assp.0347b27f40.20170623132731.530e18ee@o-sinc.com | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-project] The status of grsecurity upstream and hardened-sources downstream by "Anthony G. Basile" |
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| 1 | On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 12:28:27 -0400 |
| 2 | "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote: |
| 3 | > |
| 4 | > I waited two months before saying anything because the reasons were |
| 5 | > more of a political nature than some technical issue. At this point, |
| 6 | > I think its time to let the community know about the state of affairs |
| 7 | > with hardened-sources. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Political is not really the correct terminology, more breach of |
| 10 | trademark. This was a business decision, I do not blame them! |
| 11 | https://grsecurity.net/announce.php |
| 12 | https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/26/grsecurity_linux_kernel_freeloaders/ |
| 13 | |
| 14 | They are still available just not for free, for $200 |
| 15 | https://grsecurity.net/purchase.php |
| 16 | |
| 17 | Thanks WindRiver/Intel.... |
| 18 | https://www.windriver.com/products/linux/security/ |
| 19 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_River_Systems |
| 20 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_River_Systems#Wind_River_Linux |
| 21 | |
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| 23 | William L. Thomson Jr. |