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Re: GPL version 3 comments
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David Kastrup |
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Re: GPL version 3 comments |
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Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:32:21 +0100 |
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"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:
> I use Linux, not GNU, BSD, or other Unix-based operating systems,
> and want to release programs under the GPL.
>
> Linux is just a kernel, using it without any operating system is
> impossible.
Nonsense. Embedded applications work directly on top of a kernel.
> GNU is one operating system that works with Linux,
More nonsense. Operating systems certainly require a kernel (in fact,
the standard Computer Science definition pretty much covers _only_ the
kernel unless we are talking Microkernel-based systems). GNU without
kernel is not an operating system.
Not even in RMS' terminology (who calls the whole of GNU/Linux a
variant GNU system).
> and there are some embedded versions too.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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