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Not only is it Free Software, but LP was nice enough to make the entire thing accessible over RPC, so that non-free software could easily integrate with the OS
by anonbanker 12y ago
Not only is it Free Software, but LP was nice enough to make the entire thing accessible over RPC, so that non-free software could easily integrate with the OS at the lowest levels (PID1!), bypassing GPL/LGPL restrictions, and removing much of the reason to write Free Software on Linux at all.
How this isn't worse than Tivo-ization (the reason the GPLv3 was written!), now how RMS/Moglen aren't screaming about this, I'll never know.
- Jasper_ 12y agoWell, traditional UNIX is also accessible over RPC usable by non-free software. They're just known as pipes. Spawning processes and communicating over pipes is a UNIX tradition and also lets you sidestep the GPL. Should RMS be screaming about that too?
- anonbanker 12y agoDid you really just compare systemd (giving non-free software a PID1 GPL backdoor) to Unix pipes? Maybe you can explain what a "derivative work" means to you, in relation to the GPL?