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Re: Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved
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Daniele Nicolodi |
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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 08:43:19 +0100 |
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On 16/02/2021 06:19, Richard Stallman wrote:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> > > 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.
I am well aware of this, but it is a very long stretch to describe this
as Lu did, especially the "disassociated from free software" part. I am
sure that in your long years of activism you very well understood that
one important thing in perusing a cause is to frame it precisely and
correctly.
Cheers,
Dan