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by 1718627440 92 days ago
In the embedded world you don't really sell software you sell devices with firmware. Unless the library OS is AGPL, it doesn't matter too much.
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It matters because:

1) you may not have the right to open the rest of the code on the system 2) although you make money when you sell devices, it also makes cloning trivial

Yes it matters a lot?