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Re: GrSecurity brags about it's GCC plugins (which violate the GPL for t


From: nipponmail
Subject: Re: GrSecurity brags about it's GCC plugins (which violate the GPL for the same reason it's kernel patch does) -- Is this not a threat to the gnu gpl system?
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 00:06:18 +0000
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RMS: The GCC website lists these now-proprietary plugins. Exactly what you did not want to happen has happened.

https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/plugins

grsecurity kernel -- Plugins to help with the task of creating a more secure kernel. -- https://www.grsecurity.net/features.php#tabs-gcc LWN articleSlides of PaX talk

Which links to what amounts to an advertisement for their plugins which you get when you pay them 10k+ and have to agree not to redistribute them nor the kernel patch nor anything else.



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