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The GPL issue is completely separate. The law regarding GPL and where is applies vs LGPL is well understood.
by pertymcpert 8y ago
The GPL issue is completely separate. The law regarding GPL and where is applies vs LGPL is well understood.
- trasz 8y agoNot really, no. There's the FSF interpretation on one hand, but on the other there are companies like VMWare which happily put binary blobs into the Linux kernel and don't consider it a "derived work".
- Dylan16807 8y agoThere are disagreements, but let's put it this way: If even the FSF would call it okay, then it's almost certainly okay. And the FSF will tell you that the kernel license doesn't infect user space.