Re: Question about the old BSD license and GPL (gtkipmsg)
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On Friday 22 June 2001 10:28 pm, John Galt wrote:
> <Chloe Hoffman snipped: no attributed text, no need for CC>
>
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Raul Miller wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 02:37:43PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
> >> Debian's already doing this to some small extent by calling it
> >> Debian GNU/Linux.
> >
> >No, we're not.
>
> Then why IS it Debian GNU/Linux instead of Debian Linux?
It's GNU/Linux because Linux is only the kernel, a running system is a
lot more than the kernel and most of the basic tools are GNU in origin.
>
> The way I read it is that Debian's moral duty is to see that credit
> is given where it's due anyhow. The mantra of "Debian is just
> volunteers" gets thrown about often when a DD perk is mentioned: with
> a DFSG free license, the author certainly isn't getting paid for
> their efforts. It's time that Debian recognizes that they aren't the
> only volunteers in the chain, and credit for authorship is not just a
> perk: it's the law in this case.
Nobody is denying this. /usr/share/doc/foo should state where the
package is from and who the original author is somewhere.
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Stephen Stafford
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