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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by pertymcpert on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:54AM (#17559487)
The GPL issue is completely separate. The law regarding GPL and where is applies vs LGPL is well understood.
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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by trasz on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @01:13PM (#17560184)
Not really, no. There's the FSF interpretation on one hand, but on the other there are companies like VMWare which happily put binary blobs into the Linux kernel and don't consider it a "derived work".
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Re:European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitr... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday July 18, 2018 @11:52PM (#17563833)
There are disagreements, but let's put it this way: If even the FSF would call it okay, then it's almost certainly okay. And the FSF will tell you that the kernel license doesn't infect user space.
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