* Talks about distros that aren't Arch on a Arch mailing list * Starts calling it Arch GNU/Linux (from here on out I will personally call it Ubuntu /sarcasm) * Compares the CoC to slavery (unfortunately missed the opportunity to use Reductio ad Hitlerum) Any particular reason you're trolling the mailing list? On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Francis Gerund via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > Am 22.09.2016 um 19:54 schrieb Francis Gerund via arch-general: > > > Chris, > > > Thank you for your interest. Perhaps you may find this helpful: > > > > > > http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.en.html > > > > No, we don't find this helpful at all. > > > > The FSF has no right to forcefully rename what we call our OS. We call > > it "Arch Linux" because we like that name. We don't call it "Arch > > GNU/Linux" because that sounds stupid. > > > > The GPL explicitly allows us to distribute any software licensed under > > it freely. There is no clause in the GPL that we have to include the > > name "GNU" in our name in order to do so. > > > > By the FSF's argument, we should call it "Arch > > freedesktop/GNU/systemd/KDE/GNOME/Linux", but that sounds even worse. > > > > > > > > > Hi Thomas, > > I have never said that you have to call it anything. You are free to call > it whatever you want to. > > And so am I. >
