Re: Require "this program is free software .... " notice to be preserved on the splash screen

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > In order to avoid another fiasco of the sort of the GNU/Linux
  > > controversy, where a variant of GNU software was called something else
  > > and disassociated from free software,
  > To what do you refer exactly here? I don't recall anything like this
  > ever happening, but your terse description may not help my memory.

I think Lu was referring to the widespread misnomer of "Linux system"
when referring to a variant of the GNU system which has Linux as the
kernel.  See https://gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html and
https://gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html.


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