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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2026-02-08 19:17:40 +0100
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2026-02-08 19:17:40 +0100
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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag faq/general]]
+
+[[!meta title="Could there be a compatibility with Linux binaries?"]]
+
+When you have free software, you can just recompile it and be done :)
+
+Adding such a compatibility layer would be quite a lot of work since we'd have
+to check all the ABI details to make them match exactly.
+
+In the end, the required effort is really not clearly worth the benefit, when
+you can just recompile the software.