On 11/10/06 17:21 +0530, Nagarjuna G. wrote:
2006/10/11, Devdas Bhagat devdas@dvb.homelinux.org:
BSD. They require gcc, but everything else is non GNU. As far as I am concerned, GNU is _one_ component of my system. A lot of other components use the GNU toolchain to exist, but practically, if those applications didn't exist, I might as well not use the computer.
that is the point. if those application dont exist without GNU, and there is nothing left useful for you on the computer without it, you have proved that GNU is indispensable. However, this is true only if you want to stick to free software. Otherwise GNU is dispensible anyway.
To be very precise, there isn't a Free alternative to gcc yet. If the GNU folks will continue with the whole GNU/Linux thing, I might just get bugged enough to write a BSD licensed compiler.
So me crediting just GNU would be wrong. IBM/QT/Apache/Artistic/Mozilla/X/BSD/GNU/Linux would be acceptable (off the top of my head, those are the licenses used by software on my system).
You are diverting the attention to licenses again. What about all
But my whole point is that GNU/Linux is pretty much useless to me. Regardless of how essential gcc is. If the GNU project gets credits, everyone else deserves the same amount of time.
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So, my thesis is, dispensing GNU will also take away your freedom.
Dispensing with the GPL? Definitely. Dispensing with the GNU project? Right now, other than the compiler, what else do you need to get a full BSD userland? My thesis is that Linux != GNU/Linux and there are other projects which deserve equal time in the OS name.
Devdas Bhagat