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cpeterso on Feb 2, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook

Fuschia uses a BSD style license whereas the Linux kernel is GPL. Google or hardware vendors can modify the Fuschia code without sharing the changes with the public, for better or worse.

dragonwriter on Feb 3, 2018 [–]

Google, as the copyright owner, could do that, or let hardware vendors do so, even if it was GPL.

BSD-style means that anyone can do that, even Google's competitors, without any additional permission from Google.

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