minix 3 released under BSD-like license

Christopher A. Bier chris.bier at cymor.com
Sat Dec 16 10:52:43 CST 2006


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Linus shot that down.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/13/370

> 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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