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WebOS and Jolla had/have a ton of closed source components(pretty much the whole GUI) but run on top of Linux so there's a loophole somehere.
by wfjackson 12y ago
WebOS and Jolla had/have a ton of closed source components(pretty much the whole GUI) but run on top of Linux so there's a loophole somehere.
- dezgeg 12y agoThere is no loophole, the Linux license explicitly allows usermode apps to use the (GPL-licensed) interface headers without requiring the app to be GPL. See https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/COPYING https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/COPYING