Re: The GNU thing
>
> On 25 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote:
>
> >
> > Where are you getting this? I know of nothing that requires any such
> > thing.
>
> Tell Stallman that,
Stallman asks people to consider calling their operating system
GNU/linux (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html). Since Linus
acknowledged that the GNU C compiler was critical to the development of
linux, one may consider this reasonable. Otherwise, one may ignore all
this and not mention GNU in the name just as well. Yet otherwise, one
may decide to get mightily angry about it, and declare to prefer the
BSD license, which contains the following clause:
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3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
must display the following acknowledgement:
^^^^
This product includes software developed by the University of
California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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HTH,
Eric
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E.L. Meijer (tgakem@chem.tue.nl)
Eindhoven Univ. of Technology
Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
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