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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. (blogs.windows.com)
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Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo:

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How was it not open source before? Isn't linux gpl?

[–] MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You are confusing the software and Linux kernel that make up WSL2 because the former was proprietary until now and the latter has always been available on GitHub.

Kernel used in WSL2

https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

That's news to me. Thanks for the info