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by josephcsible 1491 days ago
So just because some people have broken rules and gotten away with it so far, we should get rid of those rules for everyone?
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Nobody has broken rules. The rules are simply permissive enough that you can still push out a Non-GPL drivers for a GPL mono-kernel.

The Fuchsia design is good because it recognizes that reality and creates a world where patching the kernel doesn't require hardware vendors to rebuild their drivers.

Rules that can be broken in the open without consequences aren't rules.

In any case, the transition to MIT based FOSS on embedded platforms like Zephyr, RTOS, NutX,... proves that it won't matter for much longer anyway.