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Re: Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved on the splash screen |
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Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:19:05 -0500 |
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> > In order to avoid another fiasco of the sort of the GNU/Linux
> > controversy, where a variant of GNU software was called something else
> > and disassociated from free software,
> To what do you refer exactly here? I don't recall anything like this
> ever happening, but your terse description may not help my memory.
I think Lu was referring to the widespread misnomer of "Linux system"
when referring to a variant of the GNU system which has Linux as the
kernel. See https://gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html and
https://gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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