minix 3 released under BSD-like license

[Monty J. Harder]

On 12/16/06, Christopher A. Bier <chris.bier at cymor.com> wrote:
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> Linus shot that down.
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And a damned good thing he did, too.  For the forseeable future, there are
going to be hardware manufacturers who don't have the budget to do driver
development for Linux in a 'cleanroom', separated from their Windows driver
work.  The tools that Microsoft provides to companies for building drivers
come with proprietary MS stuff in them, and attached NDAs that forbid them
releasing the source to anyone who hasn't also signed the NDA.

And they have the gall to call the GPL 'viral'.

Anyway, those companies simply are not going to release source code.
They'll either not support Linux at all, or do it in userspace like Linus
said.  Either way, preventing binary drivers would be a feel-good,
do-nothing act.
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