From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from greylight.firinn.org (12-239-52-172.client.attbi.com [12.239.52.172]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with SMTP id DEB14ABB8E for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:07:46 -0500 (CDT) Received: (qmail 20560 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Sep 2002 12:12:37 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:12:36 -0500 From: Mark Bainter To: Greg Corcoran Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper Gentoo Name (was License criteria for Gentoo) Message-ID: <20020925121235.GL10976@firinn.org> Mail-Followup-To: Greg Corcoran , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <200209251047.39859.pauldv@cs.kun.nl> <87elbinzdq.fsf@fnord.sc> <200209251335.49759.pauldv@cs.kun.nl> <1032955091.21768.8.camel@fasty.spidex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1032955091.21768.8.camel@fasty.spidex.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.19-crypto-r7 on a i586 X-PGP-Fingerprint: CF87 F5AA 26AB 9FA2 BBF3 90D0 0DD1 D14C B2DF AD43 Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 1739e576-3090-4dae-ac72-dd7250569d90 X-Archives-Hash: f9d83df031f23fa80ab534dd0f96b4bd Greg Corcoran [gregc@spidex.com] wrote: > On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 04:35, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > To take this into the car analogies. > > > > The car called Linux or Gnu linux > > Engine: made by Linus Torvalds & co. branded linux > > Gearbox: made by FSF branded glibc > > and so on with other pieces ... > > Excellent points! > > This means that the Integrators (the Gentoo developers) are really > building the OS from parts from different suppliers. > > These parts are put together as defined by the "system" profile. This is > the base OS. > > QED the proper name is: > > Gentoo(TM) OS Actually, to take your point all the way, the proper name is whatever the hell they want to call it. Gentoo, Gentoo Linux, or whatever else one might come up with. As long as I'm posting on this again, I'd like to comment on the earlier posts that "all this is over two lines". It's not. Those two lines carry with it everything he's said about this topic in other forums. Including his abrasive insistance that anyone he does an interview with call it GNU/linux while talking to him, and his posts on other mailing lists and forums and the GNU website about this same topic. That post was not made in a vacuum.