Red Hat copyright and what RMS says about it.

Ripcrd6 ripcrd6 at worldinter.net
Fri Sep 3 14:35:52 CDT 1999


Hmm....I'm not a lawyer, but I *think* you might be able to get away with
saying that it is "COMPATIBLE" with RedHat Linux, or something to that
effect.... :-)
Hey, I know...say that it's based on "Scarlet Chapeau Linux" ;-)
 (tongue FIRMLY in cheek!)
Brian
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Maurice L. Entwistle <maurice at discoverynet.com>

    Dear KC LUGS:
    Here's an email from RMS. The Red Hat copyright deal is true. But he's
happy. Interesting, huh?  Maurice

    "That's right, the GPL distribution of Red Hat
    Linux can no longer be called Red Hat Linux, it now MUST have a new
name.

    I've been unhappy with the old name for years.
    This system is basically the GNU system,
    but they call it Linux.

    They should call it GNU/Linux.
    See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html.  "




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