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Jasper_ on April 12, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: “I wish systemd would get over its thing about sys...

Well, traditional UNIX is also accessible over RPC usable by non-free software. They're just known as pipes.

Spawning processes and communicating over pipes is a UNIX tradition and also lets you sidestep the GPL. Should RMS be screaming about that too?

anonbanker on April 13, 2015 [–]

Did you really just compare systemd (giving non-free software a PID1 GPL backdoor) to Unix pipes?

Maybe you can explain what a "derivative work" means to you, in relation to the GPL?

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