This week at LWN: Has Bionic stepped over the GPL line?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 31, 2011 12:12 PM EDT
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Way back in the early days of Linux, shortly after Linus Torvalds switched the kernel from his own "non-commercial" license to the GPL, he also added an important clarification to the kernel's license. In the COPYING file at the top of the kernel tree since mid-1993, there has been a clear statement that Torvalds, at least, does not consider user-space programs to be derived from the kernel, and thus are not subject to the kernel's license..

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