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If you are linking against GPL code then yes it's true. If you are linking against LGPL code then it's fine. Note that running software on Linux doesn't mean yo
by tensor 2y ago
If you are linking against GPL code then yes it's true. If you are linking against LGPL code then it's fine. Note that running software on Linux doesn't mean you are linking to Linux. However, if you distribute Linux, then yes, you must supply the Linux source code on request.
The "technosphere" is generally fairly compliant on these things. There is no disaster. But this is also why most commercial companies avoid GPL libraries.
- account42 2y ago> Note that running software on Linux doesn't mean you are linking to Linux. Technically, you do link to linux-vdso.so (or variants depending on architecture), which is part of the kernel image. There doesn't seem to be an explicit GPL exception for the sources of this library [0] but the general syscall exception [1] may or may not apply. [0] e.g. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/entry... [1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/LICENSES/excep...