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ARCTIC's Fan Controller Driver For Linux Being Dual-Licensed With BSD-2-Clause
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ARCTIC's fan controller driver for Linux is being dual-licensed with the BSD-2-Clause license, broadening its availability beyond Linux.
Dual-licensing under BSD-2-Clause makes the driver code reusable in permissively licensed operating systems and projects, not just Linux. It is also unusual that ARCTIC, an enthusiast-oriented hardware company, wrote and published the driver themselves rather than leaving it to the open-source community.
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ARCTIC published a fan controller driver for Linux earlier this year.
The driver is being dual-licensed with BSD-2-Clause in addition to its existing license.
Enthusiast-oriented peripheral companies rarely write and publish Linux drivers themselves.
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