-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 22 June 2001 10:28 pm, John Galt wrote: > <Chloe Hoffman snipped: no attributed text, no need for CC> > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Raul Miller wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 02:37:43PM -0600, John Galt wrote: > >> Debian's already doing this to some small extent by calling it > >> Debian GNU/Linux. > > > >No, we're not. > > Then why IS it Debian GNU/Linux instead of Debian Linux?
It's GNU/Linux because Linux is only the kernel, a running system is a lot more than the kernel and most of the basic tools are GNU in origin. > > The way I read it is that Debian's moral duty is to see that credit > is given where it's due anyhow. The mantra of "Debian is just > volunteers" gets thrown about often when a DD perk is mentioned: with > a DFSG free license, the author certainly isn't getting paid for > their efforts. It's time that Debian recognizes that they aren't the > only volunteers in the chain, and credit for authorship is not just a > perk: it's the law in this case. Nobody is denying this. /usr/share/doc/foo should state where the package is from and who the original author is somewhere. - -- Stephen Stafford GPG public key on request -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7M7oAFwmY7Xa4pD0RAo1aAJ93WR8X3MXnAVDUerHwUJKlhEg7BgCePKF3 w7i8HUY0OJs0mNp+SMpKNkw= =7Bn1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
