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Intel, Red Hat Agree To BSD License For Intel Patches

Posted by timothy on from the bsd-is-like-a-convertable-suv dept.

stock points to this story on CNET, excerpting "Red Hat and Intel have settled a licensing hiccup that threatened to prevent the Linux company from contributing to Intel's open-source project--a reminder of the frictions that can arise between the commercial tech world and the open-source community." By adding a BSD-variant license to certain kernel contributions from Intel, the two companies have bridged an impasse between the GPL and Intel's "component architecture" license.

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  1. Re:Indeed, as this agreement shows by gearheadsmp · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    OSS will soon embrace, extend and ultimately absorb closed source software into Open Source.

    Or if your name is Lord Borg Gates: Embrace, Extend, and Assimilate.

  2. Why not to use LGPL? by k-s · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why not to use LGPL? So they keep the ACPI stuff open and don't need to open anything else.

    I really don't like the BSD license 'cause I don't like to see my code on the Microsoft and folks hands and in another license!