On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: : > : > On 25 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: : > : > > : > > Where are you getting this? I know of nothing that requires any such : > > thing. : > : > Tell Stallman that, : : Stallman asks people to consider calling their operating system : GNU/linux (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html). Since Linus : acknowledged that the GNU C compiler was critical to the development of : linux, one may consider this reasonable. Otherwise, one may ignore all : this and not mention GNU in the name just as well. Yet otherwise, one : may decide to get mightily angry about it, and declare to prefer the : BSD license, which contains the following clause: : : ------------------------------------------------------------------------ : 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software : must display the following acknowledgement: : ^^^^ : This product includes software developed by the University of : California, Berkeley and its contributors. : ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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