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Re:The PS1 Game Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge Violates ... by chucksmash on Friday June 07, 2019 @09:01PM (#20129916)
I'm bad at open source licenses, but wouldn't they need to make modifications to the Linux they're running on to be required to distribute their source?
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Re:The PS1 Game Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge Violates ... by dmm on Friday June 07, 2019 @09:07PM (#20129944)
Because they are distributing GPL'd software they also have to at least offer the exact source they used. If they are using an unmodified kernel, giving users a link to a git tag would satisfy this.

In practice, every embedded use of Linux I've seen has included at least some modifications.

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Re:The PS1 Game Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge Violates ... by Wowfunhappy on Friday June 07, 2019 @09:04PM (#20129931)
No, the whole binary this code was compiled into needs to be GPL licensed in its entirety.
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