Ben A L Jemmett wrote: > > > > If we GPL Plex86, the host system will have to be GPL compatible. That > means > > > we could never implement a Win2k hosted version of Plex86 > > > > Is this really a consequence of GPL? > > I think this falls under the 'linking to GPL code' clause; a portion of the > plex86 code has to run in kernel space (at least under Linux; Windows > probably requires a similar thing, although I haven't looked too deeply into > that area of the system), and that means one dynamically links GPL code with > possibly-non-GPL code.
The kernel is exempt from GPL requirements under the "operating system" exception, just as are dynamically linked user-space libraries (for example, Windows DLLs).
