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hi all.
(warning : long mail ahead. ignore if not interested.)
i was just going through linuxgazette and look what i
come across.
richard stallman himself has replied to the letter
which ilug-bom has written as protest to aryabhat's
claim to be first indian OS.
sorry if this has been already posted by somebody at
ilug. recently i was very busy and has not gone
through ilug mails.
actual reply by rms can be found at
http://www.linuxgazette.cz/issue55/lg_mail55.html
it is right at bottom.
i am including copy of that here only.
(as i feel that this should really be a part of our
archives rather than just a link.)
sushil bhakar.
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http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~sushil
Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replies:
It sounds like this company is violating the GPL in
the use of some FSF-copyrighted software. If that is
true, we can
try to enforce the GPL. Would you please double-check
for us that FSF-copyrighted programs are included on
their
CD and on their ftp site, and send us the names of the
specific programs you identified? We also need to know
the
URLs and the official name of the product.
Also, could you tell me how to contact them? We need
the company name, snail addresses, email addresses,
etc.
With this information, we can have lawyers contact
them to object.
Meanwhile, one more item you can add to your list is
that they're calling the whole operating system
"Linux".
Linux is actually the kernel, one of the important
pieces of the system. That is what Linus wrote in
1991.
At that time, we had been working on the GNU operating
system for almost a decade, and it was almost complete
enough for self-hosting; the only major piece missing
was the kernel. Combining Linux with GNU produced a
complete free operating system, versions of which are
now integrated by Debian, Red Hat, and others.
Everyone is
free to redistribute it, but they ought to call it
GNU/Linux and give us a share of the credit. It isn't
a legal
requirement, but it is the right thing to do.
See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html for more
explanation.
Regarding the idea of an "Indian operating system": I
think that kind of nationalism is not a good thing for
world
peace.
But India should not feel left out. The GNU system has
been an international project since the very
beginning; no
single country originated it. Humanity originated it.
And India is part of humanity.
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