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Re: Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved


From: James Lu
Subject: Re: Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved on the splash screen
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:33:43 -0500

I personally became a free software activist through one of these "This program is free software, see gnu.org..." notices, so I think it's very important we preserve these: to spread the good word of free software, which is what Emacs was made to do.

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 12:19 AM Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
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[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
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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
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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