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Minix had a proprietary license that forbade distributing altered copies (but not patches, but managing patches "out of tree" was unwieldy). Minix 3 is (I belie
by e12e 8y ago
Minix had a proprietary license that forbade distributing altered copies (but not patches, but managing patches "out of tree" was unwieldy). Minix 3 is (I believe) gpl.
So free of any Minix code, means, it's free software, primarily. Not really a slight against Minix, per se.
- tyingq 8y agoThere was still a bit of a rivalry there. Like this for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum–Torvalds_debate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum–Torvalds_debate Minix 3 is BSD licensed.
- e12e 8y agoIndeed. And so is minix 1, apparently - since 2000: https://minix1.woodhull.com/faq/mxlicense.html https://minix1.woodhull.com/faq/mxlicense.html