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==Video==
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The video for the lecture given on February 27, 2019 [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/os-2019w/lectures/comp3000-2019w-lec12-2019027.m4v is now available].
The video for the lecture given on February 27, 2019 [https://homeostasis.scs.carleton.ca/~soma/os-2019w/lectures/comp3000-2019w-lec12-20190227.m4v is now available].


==Readings==
==Readings==

Revision as of 19:35, 27 February 2019

Video

The video for the lecture given on February 27, 2019 is now available.

Readings

In-Class Notes

Lecture 12
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Licenses

In the beginning
* BSD license (3 clause)

Then there was
* SunOS/Solaris
* HP/UX
* AIX
* IRIX
...


And then came Richard Stallman
* founded the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
* came up with the idea of "copyleft"
* created the GNU General Public License (GPL)

But their kernel wasn't ready in the early 1990's

BSD had a kernel...but it was trapped in litigation

Linux stepped in to that gap

Hacking the kernel
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Look at an online Linux cross reference to look around

But...develop a module if you can