I voted it down because it was so ming-bogglingly stupid that I yelled and spun around in my chair! I briefly considered unsubscribing from your blog before I c

I voted it down because it was so ming-bogglingly stupid that I yelled and spun around in my chair! I briefly considered unsubscribing from your blog before I calmed down. The note in COPYING is just to allay FUD, it's not actually necessary and certainly isn't a GPL exception. For starters, nearly all programs (by volume) making syscalls don't use any specific to Linux -- there's no way it's derivative if it runs fine on another kernel. Furthermore, responding to syscalls is what Linux is FOR in 'normal use' -- not even the FSF is jackass enough to claim that bash scripts are derivative works, even if they are riddled with bash-isms.