[Arnavion]

To be clear, it's not yet known for certain if the chilling effect of a terminated contract violates the "no further restrictions" clause of the GPL or not. Evidently IBM's lawyers think it doesn't. But it would be good to test it in court first.

[paulryanrogers]

GRSecurity started down this road. IBM though has deeper pockets

[toyg]

More importantly, IBM has the best of the best in terms of lawyers. The likelihood of them ever losing a case is basically nil. They sustained and won a proxy war with Microsoft, when Microsoft was the richest company on the planet.

[bonzini]

It's not grsecurity's idea, it started on the 90s when Spender was in kindergarten or so. It's always been the way free software companies made money.