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by geofft 3956 days ago
> PS: Perhaps grsecurity may want to instead consider a sensible noncommercial license similar to somewhere between AGPL and something like what good ol' evil Oracle would license their DBMS, i.e., companies over X employees or Y revenue need a license; hobbyists, academics and individual developers exempted. Drama resolved.

Being a set of Linux patches, it would be hard for them not to make their code available under GPLv2.

They can do the Red Hat thing of making code available only to paying customers, and terminating their customers' accounts if they redistribute things publicly. They mention that in the post.