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On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:43:24AM -0500, Steven R. Baker wrote: |
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: I can't speak for Dan, but... Isn't GNU/Linux a Stallmanism? |
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: I recall reading an interview with Linus where he doesn't even |
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: think it should be called GNU/Linux, but just plain Linux. |
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: Yes, GNU/Linux *is* a Stallmanism, it just so happens that Stallman is |
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: right and Linus is wrong. Linux is just a kernel, nothing more. An |
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: operating system consists of a kernel as well as the software that |
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: goes into it. The software that makes up a base system is made by GNU |
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: (the compiler, libc, all of the userland utilities) therefore, it's a |
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: GNU system. You can be running a BSD, Sun, Mach, or HURD kernel and |
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: still be running a GNU system. |
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All the software that makes up a base system isn't GNU. The default DB |
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is BerkeleyDB. Perl falls under your choice of licenses. Dcron is |
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under BSD. Python has it's own license. Daemontools falls under DJB's |
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license. Do you use BIND? An MTA other than Exim? |
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Why limit your scope of vision? This is all open-source software. |
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: Some argue that FreeBSD uses GCC and other GNU utilities as well, |
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: however, FreeBSD uses *only* the GNU C Compiler, and has their own |
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: libc and userland utilities. GNU/Linux is the correct name for a GNU |
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: system running on top of the Linux kernel. |
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Actually, that's not true. There's a lot more than just GCC in *BSD. |
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How do you define what the break-point is for a GNU system? Percentage |
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of software? Intent? Does this mean that this should be Gentoo BSD/GNU |
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Linux. |
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: Is Python in Gentoo linked with libreadline? If so, that's a GPL |
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: violation. Don't get me wrong, I *love* Python, but there should be |
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: some sort of policy or mechanism that says what can go in to Gentoo |
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: and what can't. Don't you care about your Freedom? |
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Actually, that's not true. The GPL states the restrictions of usage. |
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Specifically, Section 2 breaks down to saying that if you use GPL'd |
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software, then you must make you source code publically available. Thus |
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your argument becomes a non-issue. |
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Oh, I do care about my freedom a great deal. But how do you define |
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freedom? Is it an open environment w/out restrictions? Or is it an |
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environment with only the restrictions you approve of? |
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The fact is that many talented people put lots of hard work into this |
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stuff. I define freedom by respecting their choice as to which license |
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they choose to use. |
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--Jerry |
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name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a |
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phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death... |
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email: jerry@××××××.com || ...It's much more important |
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|| than that! |