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@phnt @Suiseiseki rm license.txt is not, unfortunately, a legally recognized action. in the eyes of the state -- which can and will make your life hell, up to and includong tormenting your loved ones -- software licenses matter and you can be in violation of them. if you somehow manage to patch linux such that it can be built with `busybox ls linux/src/* | busybox sort -n | busybox xargs busybox cat | tcc -I/usr/include/musl -L/usr/lib/musl` (which would be cauchy as an engineering project even if the kernel itself sucked as a result) you would still need to release it under the gnu general public license version 2.0-only or be prepared to recieve a very not-rm-able summons.
"the terrorist is going around poising food"
"the bottle is empty, therefore its safe-ish"
"what do you mean? surely we shouldn't eat any food even if its only one drop of poison"
"just eat around where the poison was :)"
@monkyyy @phnt @Suiseiseki poison wasn't the most literal analogy. think of it like a lego tower, but some bricks contain significant doses of caesium or plutonium or similar and will cause cancer after some exposure. if only two bricks are this way, you can simply discqrd them and replace them with normal bricks. compare that to if 51% of the bricks are proprietary cancer causing bricks, where the problem is much bleaker.

I find the gnu/mit debate completely absurd, I just publish all code without a drop of legalese and wouldnt listen if I wanted to mix two libs with different licences I just would, whatever. I dont have a horse in the race, I just like the vitalism of anger and open extremism.

> I dont care about legalese
>> links 6 paragraphs of legalese on a legalese propaganda website
I dont like doctors, so I had a gap of I think 7 years in between getting my appendix removed and a check up. I did not go 4 times a year and be grumpy at the doctor or whatever.