From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263428AbTGTIfI (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2003 04:35:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263590AbTGTIfI (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2003 04:35:08 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:9649 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263428AbTGTIfC (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2003 04:35:02 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Leandro_Guimar=E3es_Faria_Corsetti_Dutra?= Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] RMS and reactions to him Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 10:49:28 +0200 Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=20Fam=C3=ADlia?= Dutra Message-ID: References: <200301201338.h0KDcLjd001178@eeyore.valparaiso.cl> <20030122162107.GA26725@mark.mielke.cc> <871xwl7h6j.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Pan/0.14.0 (I'm Being Nibbled to Death by Cats!) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 10:09:40 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra writes: > >> Debian actually calls it GNU/Linux. > > OTOH, Debian is the only distribution that might remove FSF credits > and calls for funding References? > and the GNU Manifesto from the distribution. I I'd be surprised. They carry the Anarchist Manifesto and the KJV Bible. > don't know of any other distribution which is considering such > far-reaching plans. It won't be the first disagreement. Debian actually was poised to become *the* GNU distribution until they insisted on carrying non-free software, when that was even more essential. Every so often this issue is raised again; presumably they will shed non-free completely once a recent free version of Java 2, SWF player and assorted stuff becomes available. What they *are* doing is removing the GNU FDL stuff. I have read the discussions, and it seems to me something they could get over if RMS and some small group of Debian people -- *not* all of debian-legal -- had a good talk over a good beer. OTOH all this never prevented Debian from being preferred by the FSF, actually used by RMS, and from calling itself Debian GNU/Linux, as well as being the Hurd distro. -- _ Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra +41 (21) 648 11 34 / \ http://br.geocities.com./lgcdutra/ +41 (78) 778 11 34 \ / Answer to the list, not to me directly! +55 (11) 5686 2219 / \ Rate this if helpful: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=leandro