Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Jerry A! <jerry@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Distribution Name
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 22:36:49
Message-Id: 20010130003720.A19556@kabbu.akopia.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Distribution Name by srbaker@mysterymachine.ddts.net (Steven R. Baker)
1 On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:18:41AM -0500, Steven R. Baker wrote:
2 : First, I'm a very ardent advocate of the Free Software Movement, and
3 : the GNU Project, so naturally I was wondering why you decided to call
4 : the distribution Gentoo Linux instead of properly, Gentoo GNU/Linux?
5
6 I can't speak for Dan, but... Isn't GNU/Linux a Stallmanism? I recall
7 reading an interview with Linus where he doesn't even think it should be
8 called GNU/Linux, but just plain Linux.
9
10 : Also, I was wondering if there is a policy regarding licensing issues
11 : that you follow as a project. IE: do you keep track of which licenses
12 : are compatible with which? A little known fact is that the Python 2.x
13 : license is incompatible with the GPL, so no GPL code can be used with
14 : Python without explicit written permission from the author. What kind
15 : of safeguards do you have against this?
16
17 However, the license is OSI-compliant. In theory, this code "infection"
18 would take place if we were talking about GPL/BSD projects.
19
20 Though, I don't see this as an issue. We're not developing or extending
21 the internals of Python. Everything is being created as external
22 packages.
23
24 --Jerry
25
26 name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a
27 phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death...
28 email: jerry@××××××.com || ...It's much more important
29 || than that!