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dezgeg on Oct 29, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Windows 10 will come with a command-line package m...

There 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

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