Il ven, 2002-04-05 alle 01:15, Thierry Vignaud ha scritto:
> my 2 euro cents :
>
> "Branko Collin" <collin@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > For those who do not know: the OS Linux was built by Linux Torvalds
> > in 1991. He basically only built a kernel and used parts of the GNU
> > project to pad it out to a complete OS. People started calling the
> > whole OS Linux. At this the founder of GNU, Richard Stallman, balked,
> > because he feels that the OS is as much his as Linus' and that he
> > deserves credit for it. He would like to see that credit in the shape
> > of the OS being called GNU/Linux rather than just Linux.
>
> well, i don't agree at 100%: rms arguments've drawbacks.
> gnu softwares're NOT the majority of free softwares in a distro.
> eg, in mandrake, only looking at sources rpms, they're:
> - GPL: 851 (of which an estimated one third is from gnu)
> - LGPL: 91
> - BSD: 87
> - various free licences: 62
> - Artistic: 47
> - MIT: 35
> - public domain : 29
> - freeware: 12
> - mpl: 13
> - Apache: 11
> - OpenSource: 4
> - qpl:4
> - opl: 2
> - fdl: 2
>
> so should we speak of gnu-bsd-mpl-qpl-artistic/linux ?
> or, as gpl softwares number is greater than gnu/fsf ones, should we
> speak of gpl/linux ?
gpl stands for GNU GPL and, while i don't think this discussion belongs
to this list, let me say that, at least from a philosophical point of
view, say that without GNU, Linux would not exists is quite true.
i agree on calling it gnu/linux, but i don't bother when i see a couple
of linux alones.
> eg: linux sources're as big as gcc or glibc ones, but smaller than
> XFree86 ones which're bigger than the three first ones.
> the three first ones're gpled but the fourth is released under a MIT
> license. only gcc and glibc're part of the gnu project.
> despite not being released under gpl nor being part of the gnu
> project, XFree86 is still a free software.
[snip]
> afaic, both're correct even if they're not 100% correct.
> the gnu/linux spelling has the advantage to highlight the free
> software ethic.
> nothing more.
exactly. so why not using it? ;)
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