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by gosukiwi 1854 days ago
Will we see GNU/Fucshia someday maybe then? :P
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onlyrealcuzzo 1854 days ago
The Kernel is an MIT license, and the user space is BSD [1]

> The Fuchsia kernel is released under the following MIT-style license: /zircon/kernel/LICENSE.

> All Fuchsia user space components are released under a BSD-style license: /LICENSE or an Apache 2.0 license: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/infra/+/main/LICENSE.

> All code that is BSD-licensed has an additional IP grant: /PATENTS.

[1] https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/contribute/governance/policy...

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rbanffy 1853 days ago
GNU/Fucsia would probably end up similar to GNU/Hurd in that case, or Apple's MkLinux.
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skybrian 1854 days ago
I'm guessing that depends on how big the pile of Fuchsia-compatible device drivers grows and how badly people running open source OSes want to use that hardware.

Where there's a demand for a particular class of device, maybe someone will create a shim? Then the kernel folks can have a debate.

Currently though, I think Linux has a big head start.

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