BusyBox contains GNU software [LWN.net]

BusyBox contains GNU software

Posted Feb 26, 2007 1:50 UTC (Mon) by landley (guest, #6789)
In reply to: BusyBox contains GNU software by nix
Parent article: New special purpose distributions - Firmware Linux and NSLU2-Linux

> I tend to consider RMS's various statements about what does or does not
> `comprise GNU' to say nothing whatsoever about the `ownership' of the
> packages in question, any more than RH saying that RHEL will ship GNOME
> means that RH now `own GNOME'. Of course they don't: it just means that
> they might devote developers to it. (RMS has been clear about this at
> times, e.g. regarding X11, and rather less clear at other times...)

Red Hat never insisted that Ubuntu or Debian call their distros "Debian
Red-Hat-Linux". But RMS insists that there's no such thing as a Linux
that isn't GNU/Linux/Dammit.

Rob

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