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cwyers
on Oct 29, 2014
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Windows 10 will come with a command-line package m...
Android is built on Linux, and it seems to do just fine despite the kernel being GPL'd.
0x0
on Oct 29, 2014
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"just fine" isn't perfectly true. The bionic interface they somehow "wash" from GPL headers to BSD headers is questionable.
dezgeg
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Nope, there is nothing questionable about it. Linus himself has stated it:
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20110322014831...
0x0
on Oct 30, 2014
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That's interesting. Still, there are a huge number of copyright holders of the linux kernel and some may have a different opinion on the legalese applies.
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