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I believe (IANAL) the implementation of KVM is GPL because it's part of Linux, but that's not viral into user space.
by yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
I believe (IANAL) the implementation of KVM is GPL because it's part of Linux, but that's not viral into user space.
- CommanderData 2y agoI'm no expert on licensing but I seem to remember GPL requires making available source if using and if the GPL project is modified, though I could be entirely mistaken.
- epcoa 2y agoThey’re making modifications to kernel code, which they’re upstreaming. They don’t need to open anything that’s on the user side of the syscall interface. There’s plenty of closed source software that runs on Linux, VMware workstation included.