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I use ChromeOS btw.
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So Alpine with its musl libc is bad? How about embedded distributions with Busybox instead of GNU userland?
Alright, you got me. I mainly care about the GPL license and the ability to modify your own devices as you like. But that doesn't make as good of a one liner.
GPLv2 does not mandate that, though. That was the main reason why GPLv3 was written.
Yes, permissive licensing instead of copyleft is bad. Things like Alpine and Busybox exist mostly to allow corporations to exploit Linux without giving back to the community, build user-hostile Tivoized devices, etc.
GPLv2 does the same. Linus Torvalds explicitly said he's fine with that and disapproves the GPLv3 for this very reason.
I guess you use an OS with a GPLv3 kernel then? Hurd?