Messages in this thread | | | From | Joseph Malicki <> | Subject | Re: GNU/Linux | Date | Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:21:20 -0500 |
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On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Richard Stallman wrote: > We've already had evidence posted to this list that FSF-owned tools > constitute less than 10% of the SuSE OS distribution. > > The FSF-copyrighted programs are a portion of the GNU software, and > tools are also just a portion. So what fraction of a particular > system consists of FSF-copyrighted tools has no special significance. > It has everything to do with it. People release software under the GPL because they like the license, not to be associated with the GNU project. Since linux is under the GPL, perhaps by your reasoning we should just have "RedHat GNU"?
Joseph Malicki
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