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Copperhead uses Grsecurity, and I used to use Grsecurity, when it was widely available, now that it's not and the developer has decided to act in hostile ways t
by ece 9y ago
Copperhead uses Grsecurity, and I used to use Grsecurity, when it was widely available, now that it's not and the developer has decided to act in hostile ways to the Linux community(1), it's made me rethink using his work and/or supporting him. Plenty of consultants make do fine without resorting to closing off their source code, and decide to act better with the community and/or companies.
(1) https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/22/grsecurity_defamation_perens_dismissed/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/22/grsecurity_defamati...
- LukeShu 9y agoCopperhead maintains the -hardened patchset, which is essentially a fork of Grsecurity, largely because of those concerns. (I don't use CopperheadOS on my phone, but I do use their work in the form of linux-hardened on my desktop!)
- jemsa 9y agoCopperheadOS doesn't use grsecurity anymore afaik. https://twitter.com/CopperheadOS/status/933684025624993792 https://twitter.com/CopperheadOS/status/933684025624993792
- ece 9y agoThanks for the link. Happy to hear they're maintaining Linux-hardened themselves.
- bubblethink 9y agoActually, copperhead itself is sort of loosely following grsec's model, which is rather unfortunate. Their licences, where required will be GPL or compatible with upstream, but otherwise copperheadOS itself is not FOSS. I kind of get that it's hard to make money in such projects, but I really don't see how this strategy works for them, unless the goal is just to be bought out by someone.