> FTP is part of every GNU work station, but the procotol, like X, > isn't developed by the FSF.
Neither are the FTP clients. So GNU inetutils which provides GNU ftp isn't part of the GNU system? Nor is the GNU ftpd which GNU inetutils also provides part of the GNU system? > There is a difference between assembling a system, and > developing its components. The FSF certainly does not develop > X11. > > Neither does the FSF develop FTP, SMTP, Gopher, HTTP, .... I > fail to see what protocols have to do with this. So does anybody else. The protocols are a blatant red herring brought up by yourself. The topic is the programs and libraries constituting a GNU system. And those are to a significant degree developed by third parties and used as components in a compilation. Emacs was to a significant degreed developed by third parties, I guess it too isn't part of the GNU system. Nor is GCC, which is being developed by RedHat, and then we have the GNU C library which also is being developed by RedHat. > As the head for the GNU project he is responsible for it. He > might not have written every single line, but he is the head of > the GNU project, whether you like it or not. And that is what > St. IGNUcius says. It is irrelevant to the copyright situation. The copyright situation doesn't dictate if something is part or not of an operating system, or a project. GCC isn't fully copyrighted by the FSF, neither are many projects, yet they are GNU projects, then there are non-GNU projects which are part of the GNU system. Please do something useful, it is quite sad that you cannot even acknowledge that you are simply trolling right now. I sometimes wonder if you are infact worse than Alexander, atleast he can be funny at times. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
