End Of Development For Grsecurity Announced?

vrtk writes "I received this minutes ago, from the grsecurity mailing list, also displayed on the official site for the open-source security project: 'Beginning today, May 31, 2004, development of grsecurity will cease. On June 7, the website, forums, mailing list, and CVS will be shut down. Due to a sponsor unexpectedly dropping sponsorship of grsecurity while continually promising payment, I began the summer in debt and had to borrow money from family to pay for food. If none of the companies that depend on grsecurity, some of them being very large, are able to sponsor the project, grsecurity will cease to exist. I am not looking for paypal donations at this point, unless those that donate do so with the recognition that despite their donation, grsecurity may still never be returning.'"

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[YAJoe]

Is SourceForge not an option for this guy? That should relieve present/future hosting costs

I also looked around on the site for the license... is grsecurity released under the GPL? If so, how will it "cease to exist?" I thought the whole point of GPL/OSS was to prevent that sort of thing from happening.

If he didn't release it under the GPL/OSS license, then I have as much pity for the man as I would for MS losing its "sponsors."

Re:cease to exist?

[ameoba]

Why not just move everything over to Sourceforge and not worry about hosting costs?