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Under the same meeting ask the lawyer about the linux kernel and where the border is for its license. They will likely give a similar answer, through if the com
by belorn 6y ago
Under the same meeting ask the lawyer about the linux kernel and where the border is for its license. They will likely give a similar answer, through if the company relies on selling devices with a linux kernel the risk vs reward will result in a very different decision in the end.
- nine_k 6y agoGPL 2 has been tried in courts many times, and there is a consensus that Linux kernel's license applies to the kernel (publish your patches) and not applications that use the kernel. E.g. Go is shipped under a BSD license, not GPL, and sidesteps libc for quite a few APIs.
- Conan_Kudo 6y agoThe Linux kernel explicitly has a user-space exception written into its license, which is why the requirement of reciprocity stops there.