Re: Debian trademark [was: Debian GNU/w32, may ready to be started?]
On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 13:27, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Ean Schuessler <ean@brainfood.com> writes:
>
> > I think that it is worth pointing out that "GNU" is not a registered
> > trademark of the Free Software Foundation. The only barrier to using it
> > would be politeness and deference on our part to the FSF.
>
> Right. So let's be appropriately polite and deferential with the
> FSF's name, and not call something that's based on non-free software
> "GNU"
The FSF wants things to be called GNU/Linux, because its a GNU system
with a linux kernel. The same logic would extend to GNU/w32 in that its
a gnu system (or as much a gnu system as anything else) with a w32
kernel/ui.
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