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From: Christian Meuser <christian.meuser@munich.ixos.de>
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Andy Tanenbaum wrote:
> 
> Better late than never.  I finally got permission from Prentice Hall to
> change the MINIX license to the BSD license.  The lawyers sort of sat on

To me, there is no difference, since I was allowed to learn from Minix
even with the "old" license :-)

What are the implications about the uniformity of the code ?
Will there be one central "Minix-distribution" or will things
spread to a hoard of incompatible distributions as Linus does ??

Ciao
	Mecki
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