https://twitter.com/jonoberheide/status/857243764800225280 … It will still be GPLv2 since customers are paying for sources licensed as GPLv2. Legally, they could publish it.
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If they have any third-party users/customers of their own they ship to, they're required to ship or offer the full source.
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Sure, which is why it will primarily only be for internal use on servers or internal client devices. The patch can also be stripped down.
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They are likely going to be offer discounts for patches supporting only a single architecture, but could do a lot more if they wanted to.
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In theory, they could have a company provide their kernel configuration and then generate a stripped down patch for them based on that.
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Remove changes in all the unused files and add
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A company might just be expected to pay a lot more and use less widely applicable patches to use it for clients outside of the company.
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It's also quite possible that their clients never request sources, especially if they aren't aware that they're using grsecurity kernels.
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