"Better late than never. I finally got permission from Prentice Hall to change the MINIX license to the BSD license. The lawyers sort
of sat on this for two years."
"Anyway, the new license conditions are below. These are the same as for Berkeley UNIX. It seems to me better for the users than
GPL since there is no requirement to provide source code. MINIX is much smaller than Linux and might well be suitable as the
operating system for a watch, camera, or transistor radio. The manufacturer of, say, a watch might really not want to provide a
CD-ROM with the source code with each watch or even a web site with the source code, as being too much trouble. The new
MINIX license says you can distribute source if you want to, but you don't have to. At this point, for most intents and purposes,
MINIX is effectively no different than being in the public domain. You can do whatever you want with it."
