Messages in this thread | | | Subject | [OT] Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux | Date | Sun, 20 Dec 1998 14:44:33 +0100 | From | Olaf Titz <> |
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> the distribution level. If GNU wants to use Linux as their kernel and > build a distribution and call it GNU/Linux, I think that would be great. > Otherwise, they should keep their noses out of other people's products. I > do not see anywhere in the GPL where it says you are required to put GNU/ > in front of any product that comes with or was made with GNU tools. If
This has been beaten to death enough times already, but solely because of the ego complex of one rather powerful person (hint: nothing to do with IBM) it isn't as dead as deserved and GNU software keeps renaming every "linux" getting under its hands to "linux-gnu" or "gnu-linux" as it just sees fit and the mess it thus creates on every other user's filesystem gets worse with each release of the otherwise fine autoconf utilities.
I have resorted to always call the following instead of "configure":
#!/bin/sh for i in config.sub config.guess ltconfig; do if [ -f $i -a ! -f $i.gnu ]; then perl -i.gnu -pe 's:linux-gnu:linux:g' $i fi done exec ./configure "$@"
It's ironic that it was the FSF who started this bulls___, not IBM who everyone likes to bash.
Olaf
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