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Re:Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991) by e12e on Thursday November 01, 2018 @05:20PM (#18358576)
Minix had a proprietary license that forbade distributing altered copies (but not patches, but managing patches "out of tree" was unwieldy). Minix 3 is (I believe) gpl.

So free of any Minix code, means, it's free software, primarily. Not really a slight against Minix, per se.

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Re:Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991) by tyingq on Thursday November 01, 2018 @08:00PM (#18359594)
There was still a bit of a rivalry there. Like this for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum–Torvalds_debate

Minix 3 is BSD licensed.

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Re:Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991) by e12e on Friday November 02, 2018 @02:49AM (#18361108)
Indeed. And so is minix 1, apparently - since 2000:

https://minix1.woodhull.com/faq/mxlicense.html

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