On Saturday 30 December 2006 23:14, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > On 12/30/06, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > irrelevant. You can use the gnu tools, as also tons of other FOSS > > stuff without a linux kernel. See my earlier mail. Everyone can > > decide which is more important based on their own logic. > > Exactly, and on the same lines everyone can decide what they want > to name their distribution. I understand that GNU doesn't force > anyone, but seems like they would probably withdraw from everything > that doesn't have the word GNU.
Also pointed out in an earlier mail two licences approved by OSI which is most certainly not free. U can't take parts of the source under those licences and use it somewhere else. So anyone who says open source == freesoftware is talking crap. Once u are aware of the fact - which newbies are certainl not - u may call your distro whatever u fancy. If u tell a newbie opensource== freesoftware you are now deliberately misleading them. And why would one do such a thing - beats me. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
