Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Jan 2003 06:26:13 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" |
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On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 08:40:26AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > It is the ultimate in hypocrisy to ask others for something you aren't > willing to do yourself. I, for one, will remind you of this every time > you bring up GNU/Linux in this list. > > These two cases are similar, but not in the way you think. In both > cases a large structure that is basically GNU or of GNU has a > component that is Linux or of Linux. > > So why do we treat them differently? In general, there's no ethical > obligation to cite each and every component of a larger structure in > the structure's name.
Great. So not only is there no legal need to cite GNU in the Linux name, there is no ethical obligation either. Thanks for clearing that up. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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