This has always been my perspective as well, but it goes against long-established norms—for example, it's for exactly this reason that the LGPL was created. I d

This has always been my perspective as well, but it goes against long-established norms—for example, it's for exactly this reason that the LGPL was created. I don't think either theory has been thoroughly tested in court, though. See https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/ for a countervailing position from the SFC and FSF.