> if you're not distributing your work That’s not true either. There’s no such distinction. A program using a GPL library (such as the kernel) is considered as

> if you're not distributing your work That’s not true either. There’s no such distinction. A program using a GPL library (such as the kernel) is considered as a derivative work according to the FSF. Canonical legal (for ZFS) decided that distributing a non-GPL module is fine, as did NVIDIA for their GPU drivers. If the GPL is considered as enforceable on that front (which was _not_ tested), a lot of things would change.