Dear Twitter: would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon macs, and if so, how much would you pledge? Read thread for details. (please reply for >$50)
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That's a brilliant idea, I'm in. Would you mind doing it dual-licensed, so we can use this for OpenBSD/FreeBSD/NetBSD/DragonflyBSD/etc. as well?
Sure, happy to permissive-license whatever bespoke files I write, within the GPL limitations (not sure how much e.g. you can claim code speaking internal Linux interfaces a priori isn't a derivative work, but if you rip those parts out...)
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Perfect. :)
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I don't really have money to spend, but I'd be willing to help reverse & rebuild some drivers, particularly the GPU stack. My ultimate goal would be to get Windows running, but if we have an OSS driver under a permissive license, then I think our goals align here.
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Quite a bit of the graphics stack is permissively licensed. The BSDs all use ported versions of it.
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Yeah, anything that talks to existing dual-licensed bits is fair game; I hope the BSDs can use the graphics work too!
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