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Re: what is the current status of GPL v3
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David Kastrup |
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Re: what is the current status of GPL v3 |
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Thu, 18 May 2006 12:48:28 +0200 |
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"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:
> The X Windows system consists of an X server and client libraries
> communicating via a network transparent protocol.
>
> The X window system is a protocol, like FTP. Maybe you mean XFree86
> or X.Org? A X window system implementation is infact part of the
> GNU system; which I do not know since none really work very well
> with the Hurd.
>
> FTP is part of every GNU work station, but the procotol, like X,
> isn't developed by the FSF.
Neither are the FTP clients. You are desparately clutching at straws.
> There is a difference between assembling a system, and developing
> its components. The FSF certainly does not develop X11.
>
> Neither does the FSF develop FTP, SMTP, Gopher, HTTP, .... I fail
> to see what protocols have to do with this.
So does anybody else. The protocols are a blatant red herring brought
up by yourself. The topic is the programs and libraries constituting
a GNU system. And those are to a significant degree developed by
third parties and used as components in a compilation.
> Guess what: manifest or not, hero worship or not, Richard has not
> been responsible for all of what is subsumed into a GNU system.
> And if you actually believe that, you are being spectacularly
> dense. Just read all the copyright notices.
>
> As the head for the GNU project he is responsible for it. He might
> not have written every single line, but he is the head of the GNU
> project, whether you like it or not. And that is what St. IGNUcius
> says.
It is irrelevant to the copyright situation.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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