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Subject: Re: MINIX license change
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On 2000-04-10 christian.meuser@munich.ixos.de said:
   >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
With the new licensing, more people can be free to put up Minix sites and
make and distribute their own modifications.  Since it is based on the
BSD license, perhaps you should look at how many different BSD Unix
distributions are out there (a few, but not nearly as many as Linux).


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