On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 15:21, Jim Cheetham wrote: > GNU specialises in software which is "necessary" and by > virtue of the fact that they did it first, no-one else has bothered with > replacements. I am fairly sure that the BSD variant of uname is older than the GNU version.
> > Debian, for example, would change it > > in a flash if they disagreed. > > Sure, they would happily rip out things that they disagreed with. > Despite their stance as GNU/Linux, they have carefully examined and > taken exception with the GNU documentation license. > http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.html Exactly. I am glad we are agreed then :) As an aside, I prefer the Creative Commons licence to the GNU Documentation licence; it is simpler and it does not have the same problems. -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
