By Linux kernel developers, not the customer. There are no grounds for one of their customers to sue since it's not their software license.
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Replying to @CopperheadOS @RichFelker
Linux kernel industry standards and cultural norms are not the place to look if you're expecting such strong GPL enforcement...
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Replying to @CopperheadOS
Kernel developers are lax over inconsequential infringements like missing changelogs, wrong way of conveying src, unmodified use, etc...
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Replying to @RichFelker @CopperheadOS
I don't think that means you should expect them to tolerate production of a commercial closed-source derived work...
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...especially by a party they have a long history of hostility with.
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It's not closed source. Customers buy the source code. They don't purchase binaries. Public vs. non-public is irrelevant to the GPL.
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GPL doesn't require publicly publishing source code, but rather giving it to customers under the terms of the GPL. That's the *product*.
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The product is not a kernel build. It's the grsecurity patch, applied by the customer to their kernels and run on their servers.
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The users with rights granted by the GPL are the grsecurity customers, who are purchasing the patches to apply to their kernels.
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Even if the patches were not GPL compatible (and they are), is it infringement to distribute them as source code or only to build/run them?
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Now you've devolved this conversation into unrelated "GPL 101" topics...
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