tthorn@daimi.aau.dk (Tommy Thorn) writes:

: Just how ignorant can people be? Sorry, but I've seen Minix misunderstanding
: a zillion times. MINIX IS NOT, IN ANY WAY, FREELY DOWNLOADABLE, DISTRIBUABLE
: or whatevery you might call it. It's the property of Prentice Hall Publicing.
: (..and is by the way only toy IMHO, cannot run X and never will.)

I see references to minix sprinkled through the kernel, through comp.os.linux,
and through lots of the utilities.  Some say that "such-and-such" utility was
ported from minix, or was derived from minix.  Here there be dragons...

According to current copyright law in the U.S., a derivation of a copyrighted
program (like the minix kernel, file system, or utilities) made without
permission of the copyright holder is a violation of copyright law.  So, either
the linux kernel and utilities need to be 'sanitized', or someone's got to
get assurances from Prentice-Hall that someone won't get sued for what is called
"derivitive copyright infringement".

Be very careful when you say that you've gotten ideas for a kernel hack or
a utility from minix.  It might turn around and bite you in the butt. :(
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