The GNU project tried to build an entire operating system. They published the parts they had built under the GPL. After Linus built his kernel, he and others st

The GNU project tried to build an entire operating system. They published the parts they had built under the GPL. After Linus built his kernel, he and others started to use it, the GPL'd utilities from GNU and source from other places to build an entire operating system. That operating system is NOT the one that the GNU project was trying to build, and nowhere in the terms of the GPL does it say that by using this code you are required to give us credit or put us in the name. And I don't think RMS's concern is that he wants credit. I think he wants a GNU operating system to further certain goals he has, and since a GNU operating system doesn't exist, he wants to make Linux that operating system and have Linux further his goals. But adopting GNU's utilities and even the GPLv2 has not made the people building the Linux kernel or most of the prominent Linux distributions adopt GNU's politics, and that's what all the sturm and drang about the name is really about.