Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Sep 2007 11:51 UTC
QNX has announced that they are going to open up the source code to their QNX microkernel operating system. The press release reads: "Effective immediately, QNX will make source code for its award-winning, microkernel-based OS available for free download. The first source release includes the code to the QNX Neutrino microkernel, the base C library, and a variety of board support packages for popular embedded and computing hardware." Read on for more information, as well as an interview with Dan Dodge, CEO of QNX.
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2005-07-06
While the code being open will certainly be useful as a source of study, the licensing will severely restrict how people can use it.
QNX is merely continuing to muddy the waters of licensing for projects that make their code available. Microsoft at least had the decency to choose licensing terms that would be compatible with a great deal of code that is available in the open source community.
The non-commercial restriction of the code will make it difficult at best to be able to use anything but BSD, MIT, or X11 -style open source code in combination with QNX code.
While this is beneficial for QNX's customers, I can't help but think that their company has "missed the point."
Nonetheless, they are to be commended for trying.