There'll be no halt

Posted Sep 24, 2006 1:46 UTC (Sun) by grahammm (guest, #773)
In reply to: There'll be no halt by Felix_the_Mac
Parent article: Kernel developers' position on GPLv3

No it would not be a show stopper. There is no connection between the kernel licence and the application licences. Otherwise it would not be possible to run GPL licensed applications on proprietary, non free, operating systems, nor to run closed source applications on free operating systems.