On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Stephen Stafford wrote: >-----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.
...thus it's giving credit where credit is due to the GNU foundation. >> >> 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. Why throw it in the docs that nobody reads? Trumpet it from the highest mountains, include it in advertising, let everyone know that Debian is proud to have code from all corners of the world in it and will be more than happy to share the spotlight. More importantly: let it be known that Debian is one of the ONLY ones willing to do this. Let Debian not do this because a license tells it to, but let it do it because it's the right thing to do. >- -- >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----- > -- Here is wisdom. Let him that hath wisdom count the number of the BSD: for it is the number of a man; and his number is VI VI VI. (ir-reve-rent-lations 13:17-19) Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!
