From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, 139792-forwarded@bugs.debian.org,
nick@nickwillson.com
Subject: Re: Bug#139792: emacs21: Press PageDown, get infinite loop
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:00:16 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200204152200.g3FM0GD23812@aztec.santafe.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k7ran9bo.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> (message from Rob Browning on Sun, 14 Apr 2002 00:22:19 -0500)
> WHAT IS LINUX?
>
> Linux is a Unix clone written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with
> assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net.
> It aims towards POSIX compliance.
That isn't true--I am sad to see that the kernel developers are
distributing this inaccurate statement. See
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html.
> It is distributed under the GNU General Public License - see the
> accompanying COPYING file for more details.
The kernel is released under the GNU GPL, but the whole system--the
Unix clone--is not. It includes components such as X11, GNU libc,
Apache, TeX, etc., which have other licenses.
The kernel developers ought to know this. How did they manage to
overlook it? It appears that they were fooled by their own confusing
practice of calling the whole system "Linux." Fooled, as millions of
others have been fooled. How ironic!
Could Debian correct these release notes to prevent them from
confusing anyone else in the same way? Rob, could you ask?
Meanwhile, the problem did not happen for me, but it probably
depends on the screen height. What was that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-15 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <E16pNB6-0003ei-00@blackbird.home.nickwillson.com>
2002-04-14 5:22 ` Bug#139792: emacs21: Press PageDown, get infinite loop Rob Browning
2002-04-15 22:00 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2002-04-15 23:20 ` David Kastrup
2002-04-16 6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-16 10:21 ` David Kastrup
2002-04-16 12:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-16 12:39 ` David Kastrup
2002-04-16 14:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-17 16:04 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-17 16:03 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <rms@gnu.org>
2002-04-16 3:55 ` Nick
2002-04-17 16:03 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-16 13:56 ` Peter S Galbraith
2002-04-16 19:25 ` Rob Browning
[not found] ` <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
2002-04-17 13:05 ` Peter S Galbraith
2002-04-17 15:22 ` Rob Browning
2002-04-17 16:04 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-18 15:22 ` Paul Jarc
2002-04-19 5:25 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-17 17:15 ` Peter S Galbraith
2002-04-19 5:24 ` Richard Stallman
2002-04-19 5:17 ` Nick
2002-04-19 6:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
2002-04-20 22:03 ` Nick
2002-04-19 13:43 ` Peter S Galbraith
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