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		melissalobos on Aug 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system I don't know quite what you mean? MINIX isn't free, which is pretty big for a student project. In fact people may have started a similar project(not big like GNU) to due to its price.

kevin_thibedeau on Aug 2, 2022 [–]

It's equivalent to 3-clause BSD.

https://wiki.minix3.org/doku.php?id=www:documentation:licens...

melissalobos on Aug 2, 2022 | [–]

My comment as may be noted was more a commentary on the historical licensing of MINIX which lead to Linux, see the original post.

https://fossbytes.com/linus-torvaldss-famous-email-first-lin...

yjftsjthsd-h on Aug 2, 2022 | | | [–]

It's reasonable to say it wasn't free, but MINIX 3 is FOSS now.

chungy on Aug 2, 2022 | | | [–]

The same argument could be made to claim "Linux isn't free" given its very first license.

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