From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved on the splash screen Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:19:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="13091"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniele Nicolodi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 16 06:19:38 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lBslu-0003Iu-6r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2021 06:19:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57120 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBslt-0000OO-68 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:19:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48560) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBslP-0008Pz-Iy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:19:07 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44064) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lBslO-00012V-Ds; Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:19:06 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lBslN-00049T-Ga; Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:19:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Daniele Nicolodi on Sat, 13 Feb 2021 22:49:00 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:264867 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > In order to avoid another fiasco of the sort of the GNU/Linux > > controversy, where a variant of GNU software was called something else > > and disassociated from free software, > To what do you refer exactly here? I don't recall anything like this > ever happening, but your terse description may not help my memory. I think Lu was referring to the widespread misnomer of "Linux system" when referring to a variant of the GNU system which has Linux as the kernel. See https://gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html and https://gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)