Re: Debian use of GNU (Was: Re: Best of the logo *ideas* so far)
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Jonathan Walther wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 18, 1999 at 01:18:45PM -0800, Jonathan Walther wrote:
> > > 2: Silhouette of a GNU. Love that too! It shrieks "svelte"
> > > and "classy". Thats how I've always wanted people to envision Debian
> > > anyways :> What possible objection could there be? We are a GNU project,
> > > and have more right than anyone save FSF themselves to use it.
> > We are *not* a GNU project. Our relationship to the FSF is cooperative and
> > closer then any time before the last years (we hae been a GNU project once).
>
> As the only Linux project with "GNU" in our name, I say we are. If we
> aren't, maybe we should remove the "GNU" from Debian GNU/Linux. Until then,
> as the distribution that has the blessing of Richard Stallman, why not use a
> gnu?
All linux distros are really GNU/Linux distros. It's only debian that
publicises it. We are not part of GNU, so we shouldn't use a GNU-like
logo.
Matthew
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