On Jul 21, 2008, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Software for Linux = Linux software. By this reasoning, reading Linus' first announcement of Linux, you'd conclude that Linux is a GNU kernel. > That's how the English language works. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/Historic/old-versions/RELNOTES-0.01 Sadly, a kernel by itself gets you nowhere. To get a working system you need a shell, compilers, a library etc. These are separate parts and may be under a stricter (or even looser) copyright. Most of the tools used with linux are GNU software [...] Linus Torvalds "torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" You may also note the "These are separate parts", "used with linux". I.e., not part of linux. linux is the kernel. So, anyone who insists in naming Linux all of the GNU operating system used with the kernel Linux is contradicting the primary developer of GNU and the primary developer of Linus. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
