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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. Intel patches? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    More like...

    [one Intel engineer to another] "don't worry about our hardware bugs, the software departement will find a workaround".

  2. Legal issues for nerds by hey · · Score: 4, Funny

    I suppose this deal is important but there is sooo much license, DRM, patent, intellectual property, etc stuff on Slashdot it should really be called Legal issues for nerds