Right, the author might not be aware of: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/license-rules.rst https://github.com/torvalds/linu

Right, the author might not be aware of: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/license-rules.rst https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/... "The Linux Kernel is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only (GPL-2.0), as provided in LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0, with an explicit syscall exception described in LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note, as described in the COPYING file." In other words, the Linux kernel isn't pure gplv2, but comes with an exception in order to allow linking.