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It is closed because customers are incentivized to not share the patches so they can continue to receive new patches.


Customers are free to distribute the patches, Grsecurity is free to choose who their customers are.


I never implied that what they are doing is wrong or illegal. Just that it is a closed private fork.


Sure I just think that it is still open source, but I think we're on the same page.




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