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5 Sep 2024 15:26:55 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A simple question of GPL  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 10 Aug 2009 15:16:20
Message: <4a807203@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I wasn't aware which exact licence Linux uses. (Although arguably the
> fact that they want people to call it "GNU/Linux" should have been a
> giveaway...)

They want to call the common operating system GNU/Linux because it's a GNU
operating system running the Linux kernel. It has nothing to do with the
Linux kernel license.

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a GNU variant with the FreeBSD kernel, which is not
GPL-licensed.


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