<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>zyx123zyx</author><text>RMS has weighed in (responded to my email (the email I sent is the same text as the current originating post at: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sys.8ch.net&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;res&amp;#x2F;605120.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sys.8ch.net&amp;#x2F;tech&amp;#x2F;res&amp;#x2F;605120.html&lt;/a&gt;  ))&lt;p&gt;Re: GRsecurity is preventing others from employing their rights under version 2 the GPL to redistribute source code
Richard Stallman  (May 31 2016 10:27 PM)&lt;p&gt;[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden&amp;#x27;s example. ]]]&lt;p&gt;If I understand right, this is a matter of GPL 2 on the Linux patches.
Is that right?  If so, I think GRsecurity is violating the GPL on
Linux.&lt;p&gt;-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
Skype: No way! See stallman.org&amp;#x2F;skype.html.</text><parent_chain><item><author>geofft</author><text>How exactly are they doing this without either violating the GPL or failing to keep their patches secret?</text></item><item><author>gbrown_</author><text>Anyone know how things are panning out after the grsecurity stopped making their stable patch series freely available? There was a fourm post and message on the mailing list a while but I&amp;#x27;ve not been able to find anything more recent.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Alpine Linux 3.4.0 Released</title><url>http://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.4.0-released.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>xyz123xyz</author><text>Additionally:
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The GPLv2 is a text that outlines by what ways a licensee may use a copyrighted work provided by the licensor. In the case that the agreement is not followed standard copyright law applies (all rights reserved).&lt;p&gt;Contracts are often known as &amp;quot;private law&amp;quot;, it allows parties to make their own agreement.&lt;p&gt;So yes, the agreement here is controlling &amp;quot;law&amp;quot;, while the public law that allows such agreements to alienate rights to copyrighted works to be enforceable by the licensee so as to protect him against the licensor is the 1973 us copyright act.&lt;p&gt;However when the licensee violates the agreement he cannot find refuge in that agreement any longer.&lt;p&gt;Go attend law school.&lt;p&gt;And YES, I have both graduated law school and passed the bar.&lt;p&gt;Have you? No.&lt;p&gt;Might be a reason why you don&amp;#x27;t know what your talking about and can only cite the GPL itself (a small 1 page document) and nothing that surrounds it (you don&amp;#x27;t even know what it hangs on).&lt;p&gt;Please people, do not listen to that fool</text><parent_chain><item><author>geofft</author><text>How exactly are they doing this without either violating the GPL or failing to keep their patches secret?</text></item><item><author>gbrown_</author><text>Anyone know how things are panning out after the grsecurity stopped making their stable patch series freely available? There was a fourm post and message on the mailing list a while but I&amp;#x27;ve not been able to find anything more recent.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Alpine Linux 3.4.0 Released</title><url>http://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.4.0-released.html</url></story>