Re: The GNU thing
On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
: >
: > 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:
:
: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
: 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.
: ------------------------------------------------------------------------
I can't stand AOL, but <AOL>! Thanks for making this point.
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