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by azinman2 3355 days ago
Because the main bit is translating Linux syscalls to windows. Which isn't gnu.
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cryptarch 3355 days ago
Isn't the main use of WSL "first-class GNU tools for Windows"?

I can't really imagine people running anything other than development tools on WSL, and most of those come from the GNU project.

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