No subject

Rahul Siddharthan rsidd at online.fr
Wed Jul 2 20:51:13 PDT 2003


Paul Robinson wrote:
> - Somebody suggested RMS was making spurious claims about GPL, BSD, Unix,
> etc. and that we may wish to clarify the FreeBSD position with regards to
> the GPL code used.

He said something about "the GNU system running with the Hurd and two
BSD kernels."  As has already been pointed out by leafy in this
thread, he was probably talking about Debian GNU/FreeBSD and Debian
GNU/NetBSD, which are a combination of BSD kernels with Debian
userlands -- not about the BSD systems as such.  He is on record many
times as saying that the names GNU/FreeBSD, GNU/Solaris etc are not
appropriate even if they include some GNU tools in their distribution.
The whole thread is based on an out-of-context quote.

Rahul


More information about the freebsd-chat mailing list