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It's perfectly possible that binaries that google runs on Borg cannot run on a vanilla Linux system.


Not only possible, it’s a fact. Borg executables make many assumptions about available runtime services and cannot operate in their absence. It’s probably impossible to derive and operate the same artifact Google is running without a complete Google architecture in place and operating, from Chubby on up.

How does one comply with the AGPL in that scenario? “Rearchitect a not stupid way” is probably the answer here, so it’s a nonstarter.




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