On 04/11/16 18:15, Steven Dake (stdake) wrote:
I **speculate** (definitely not an attorneyJ the rationale for this is that pretty much everything implemented in Linux is tainted by a GPLv2 or GPLv3 license because of a transitive dependency on kernel.org, glibc, kernel headers, gcc, libpython, and pretty much the whole operating system on which OpenStack runs.
Getting off topic here, but for the record: * The kernel license explicitly disclaims that userspace programs are derivative works: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/COPYING... * glibc is LGPL, so unless you statically link to libc (which ~nobody does) then there isn't an issue: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=COPYING.LIB * Python is not GPL at all: https://docs.python.org/3/license.html#psf-license-agreement-for-python-rele... cheers, Zane.