minix 3 released under BSD-like license

Luke -Jr luke at dashjr.org
Fri Dec 15 17:58:08 CST 2006


On Friday 15 December 2006 17:37, David Nicol wrote:
> maybe this development will spur an open device driver standard, or
> adoption of wrappers for the unified BSD driver standard into other
> frameworks

I hope not, a standard for drivers just introduces a grey-area for permitting 
binary drivers. Linux is just now finally starting the process to get rid of 
them: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/13/342


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