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Hosting by Savannah is not a rightHosting by Savannah is not a rightPosted Mar 23, 2006 6:21 UTC (Thu) by xtifr (subscriber, #143)In reply to: Hosting by Savannah is not a right by iabervon Parent article: No GPLv2-only projects on Savannah
Yes, X11 is part of the GNU project. It is not GNU software, but it is part of the GNU project. They may not have written it, but they adopted it as part of their system, just as (e.g.) Debian did.
From http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html
"Developing a whole system is a very large project. To bring it into reach, I decided to adapt and use existing pieces of free software wherever that was possible. For example, I decided at the very beginning to use TeX as the principal text formatter; a few years later, I decided to use the X Window System rather than writing another window system for GNU."
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Hosting by Savannah is not a right Posted Mar 24, 2007 20:43 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link] how nice of them to clain other people's work.
you can choose to use other people's software in your distribution, but doing so doesn't make the development of that software 'part of your project'
if it was possible to do this then there would be _NO_ justification for trying to say GNU/Linux, the linux distribution (say Ubuntu) is just 'adopting' glibc, gcc, emacs, etc as part of their project and can now can ignore the people who develop the software.
if a distro were to do this the FSF would be up in arms, however, from the post about X11 they seem to feel that they operate under different rules and can do the same thing to the xfree86 project.
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