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If you sell a device with Linux and a proprietary blob on it, then you’re arguably doing the linking, not the user. On top of that, if you enable link time opt
by hedora 3y ago
If you sell a device with Linux and a proprietary blob on it, then you’re arguably doing the linking, not the user. On top of that, if you enable link time optimization, then you have to link at build.
All of this would be allowed if you put the same device in a data center, and then had the user connect to it remotely.
- mort96 3y agoYeah, the embedded Linux context is messy. I don't know how the rules play out there (and I would be surprised if anyone truly knows). I thought we were talking about the general computing device use case. Link-time optimization isn't really relevant from what I understand; it's about optimizing across different object files when linking them together, it shouldn't have any impact on dynamic linking.