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The Linux kernel is protected by copyright law as a "literary work."

However, it was issued under the extraordinarily broad GNU General Public License, which allows free distribution of the code, and grants users permission to modify the code in any way, providing that the resulting code is also distributed under the same license.

A discussion of the GPL is linked below.

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