www/distros free-system-distribution-guidelines...

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       15/04/13 03:31:39

Modified files:
        distros        : free-system-distribution-guidelines.html 

Log message:
        Clarify about name confusion, and not using "GNU" to mean "free version 
of".

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.54&r2=1.55

Patches:
Index: free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html,v
retrieving revision 1.54
retrieving revision 1.55
diff -u -b -r1.54 -r1.55
--- free-system-distribution-guidelines.html    22 Aug 2014 13:59:53 -0000      
1.54
+++ free-system-distribution-guidelines.html    13 Apr 2015 03:31:38 -0000      
1.55
@@ -229,6 +229,23 @@
 Foobar Light.  This is because we expect that the distinction between
 the two would be lost in the process of communicating the message.</p>
 
+<p>In particular, the principal name of the free distribution
+(&ldquo;Foobar&rdquo;, in this example) should not be part of the name
+of any nonfree distribution.</p>
+
+<p>Some people have thought of adding the nane &ldquo;GNU&rdquo; to a
+free distro name to distinguish it from a nonfree one.  This has two
+problems.  First, the two names would not be sufficiently different,
+since the principal word in both names would be the same.</p>
+
+<p>Second, this would promote a misunderstanding of what
+&ldquo;GNU&rdquo; means.  <a href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">GNU is an
+operating system</a>, typically used with Linux as the kernel, and
+essentially all so-called &ldquo;Linux&rdquo; distributions are really
+GNU/Linux distributions.  In this scenario,
+<em>both</em> versions are GNU/Linux, and it would be misleading to
+omit &ldquo;GNU&rdquo; from the name of one of them.</p>
+
 <h3 id="upstream">Contacting Upstream If You're Downstream</h3>
 
 <p>For distro developers (or anyone else) who have sent an important bug
@@ -333,7 +350,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2014/08/22 13:59:53 $
+$Date: 2015/04/13 03:31:38 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>