On Saturday 30 December 2006 23:14, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 12/30/06, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
irrelevant. You can use the gnu tools, as also tons of other FOSS stuff without a linux kernel. See my earlier mail. Everyone can decide which is more important based on their own logic.
Exactly, and on the same lines everyone can decide what they want to name their distribution. I understand that GNU doesn't force anyone, but seems like they would probably withdraw from everything that doesn't have the word GNU.
Also pointed out in an earlier mail two licences approved by OSI which is most certainly not free. U can't take parts of the source under those licences and use it somewhere else. So anyone who says open source == freesoftware is talking crap.
Once u are aware of the fact - which newbies are certainl not - u may call your distro whatever u fancy. If u tell a newbie opensource== freesoftware you are now deliberately misleading them. And why would one do such a thing - beats me.