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jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes:
> MINIX isn't a contradiction to what I said; it's a confirmation!  Because
> of the licensing of MINIX, people couldn't do a little bit of work on
> MINIX and sell the port to, say, the Amiga as if it were their own property
> (as you can do with the "freed BSD sources", for example); their only real
> alternative is to either just use the patches themselves or send them back
> to the MINIX owner.

This is nonsense.  I've seen lots of patches to make MINIX work with unusual
bits of hardware.  And the MINIX Centre sells patches to improve MINIX and
make it run on different systems.

You can't sell MINIX itself as if it were yours, no.  Because it isn't.
But there's nothing to stop you selling improvements to MINIX.


mathew

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