> That's just not true, surely? It is true. > Lest everyone using any flavour of Linux is liable to the same problem? The Linux kernel has an explicit "syste

> That's just not true, surely? It is true. > Lest everyone using any flavour of Linux is liable to the same problem? The Linux kernel has an explicit "system calls are not linking" exception to avoid any possible confusion on this matter. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/LICENSES/excep... Merely using the kernel's facilities from user space does not make your program a derivative work of the kernel.