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Intel, Red Hat Agree To BSD License For Intel Patches

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:What will Linus say? by KeyserDK · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Please read the store first, and please understand the issues before posting. Linus's stance is actually very openminded

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