If Debian were to replace the GNU system with something else, we would just have to call it "Debian". Not "Debian GNU/Linux", but not "Debian Linux" either; just Debian. Or maybe the replacement system already has a name, in which case that system's name would be appropriate (e.g. maybe it's BSD, in which case it would be "Debian BSD"). That wouldn't be a problem.

But you're talking about just a few programs, not the whole system (the amount of GNU programs in BSD today is extremely small). It's one thing to replace a few programs with others, and it's another to replace the whole operating system. Also, the Debian project, last time I checked, doesn't have a problem with version 3 of the GPL. Overall, the situation with BSD is completely different from the situation with Debian.

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