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On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 08:55, Richard Stallman wrote: |
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> (If you would call the system Gentoo GNU/Linux, that would help us |
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> also. See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html.) |
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The naming issue can get very politcal and is wet cement that hardens |
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for the future. Perhaps an idea would be to call it simply: |
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Gentoo OS |
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The kernel currently can be configured only for Linux but in the future |
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we may support other kernels that the community has interest in. |
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When a Gentoo System finishes booting the kernel a copyright line comes |
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up. It currently says something like the following if I remember |
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correctly: |
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Gentoo Linux; http://www.gentoo.org |
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Copyright 2001-2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc. Distributed under GPL. |
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I think this is ambigous since GTI doesn't hold the copyright for many of the components. I think it needs to be more fine grained. |
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Perhaps it should read something like the following: |
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Gentoo OS (Linux Kernel) http://www.gentoo.org |
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Made with GNU Tools and Components |
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Portage (c) 2001-2002 Gentoo Technologies, Inc. Distributed under GPL |
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I'm not sure who utlimately decides issues like this where its very |
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difficult to keep all parties happy. Perhaps the Gentoo Technologies, |
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Inc. board of directors should decide. I'm not sure who that is though |
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and who the stake holders are. |
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The website could credit significant contributing projects to give credit where credit is due. Certainly Python is a very important part of Gentoo and that's not GNU. |
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Greg |
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