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Does it say anywhere in the GNU licenses that any operating system or kernel created by the GNU tools must be called GNU/*? To my knowledge no, thus GNU activi
by tored 5y ago
Does it say anywhere in the GNU licenses that any operating system or kernel created by the GNU tools must be called GNU/*?
To my knowledge no, thus GNU activist has no case here. You are free to use the GNU tools, in accordance to their license, and name your project whatever but not infringing on other trademarks.
- rekado 5y agoThis is not a matter of licensing at all. Nor is it about "GNU tools" being used to create something.
- tored 5y agoWhat is about then? Linux uses glibc? Does the license of glibc state that any operating system using glibc requires to be named GNU/*? Hasn't many of the BSD variants and BeOS/Haiku use(d) the GCC toolchain and glibc?
- Schiphol 5y agoThe GNU activist is claiming a moral, not legal, right