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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Indeed, as this agreement shows

[kfg]

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

Welcome to the new world order, Brother. Get used to it.

KFG

Re:What will Linus say?

[TheRaven64]

the whole point of GPL is freedom, but not necessarily the freedom to destroy what the GPL stands for.
Freedom, but only my vision of freedom. I've heard that before. It's the kind of thing people often say before deciding that a large proportion of the population is surplus. Think Lenin, Hitler, Stalin. Do you really think these are good role models?