From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hubert Chan Subject: Re: reiser4progs 0.5.4 for Debian Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:57:17 -0400 Sender: news Message-ID: <87lliwmouq.fsf@uhoreg.ca> References: <20040603194120.GD4990@nysv.org> <20040607193305.GA4854@raptus.homelinux.org> <20040607200203.GL4990@nysv.org> <20040608184559.GM4990@nysv.org> <871xkppire.fsf@uhoreg.ca> <20040609080859.GO4990@nysv.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com >>>>> "Markus" =3D=3D Markus T=F6rnqvist writes: [...] Markus> So stop calling it Debian GNU/linux. Maybe a better name Markus> would be Debian DFSG/Linux. Just because of the FDL. Or Markus> brainwash all the geeks of the world to adhere to a united view Markus> of freedom. I think that most geeks have an agreement on what "free" is in broad terms. There is just some disagreement in some of the details. The DFSG (which, by the way, is the precursor to the Open Source Definition[1]) is at least an attempt to write down the details. The FSF has their "four freedoms"[1]. They agree on most of the big points, but there are some small differences. [1] http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php [2] http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html BTW, they call it GNU/Linux because it uses the GNU system/utilities. Not because of any philosophical reason. (As a side note, Linus seems to have slightly different notions of "free"-ness as well, in the sense that he seems to be more pragmatic in his approach. See, for example, his use of BitKeeper.) Markus> I already saw Hans' reply to this. Markus> Thank you Hans, you did the respectable thing. I agree. Thank you, Hans. Markus> Let's consider this case closed and buried, please. Agreed. --=20 Hubert Chan - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.