Doesn't HexOS have to be open-source?

[bigC]

I am not a lawyer nor an expert on HexOS, but to my current knowledge, every project that uses the Linux Kernel has to be open-source. This is because of the GPL-2 license that the kernel is distributed with. Isn't part of the GPL-2 license that anything that uses that code has to be open-source and distributed under the same license? Not sure if I am missing something, but I was just curious.

[jonp]

4 hours ago, bigC said:

to my current knowledge, every project that uses the Linux Kernel has to be open-source.

That's not quite right.  Any code that is a derivative work needs to respect the license of that work.  But if its an original work, that doesn't necessarily apply.  There's technicalities to this, but in our case, we don't deliver any "code" in the ISO for HexOS right now.  That's literally TrueNAS SCALE w/ a connector to our Command Deck (which is an open source package).  Our primary code resides in two places:  our cloud infrastructure and services and our UI/UX.  We have plans to open source our UI/UX code but not our infrastructure (for obvious reasons).  Hope this helps answer your question.