Re: Squid as GNU software...

Joe Cooper wrote:

> Agreed. And I highly doubt there would be any bizarre demands of
> calling Squid "GNU/Squid" in all future mentions...I think the problem

From my understanding the issue at hand was some disagreement in project management
or model, but very little reliable information on this was provided.

In the discussion about GNU/Linux vs Linux I actually favor the RMS view. The kernel
is Linux, but most distributions are better described as GNU/Linux as FSF owns many
of the major components such as glibc, gcc, bash, binutils, .... This does not say
that all Linux distributions are GNU/Linux.

> (Though the "any future GNU license" clause does creep me out a bit.

It does. It basically allows RMS to do mostly whatever he wants with any software
licensed under GPL simply by changing the license to suite his needs. However, even
if he does, the older (i.e. now current) license is still valid, and the way this
section of the license is worded should protect other software owners if so should
happen as it requires that any new license version must be similar in spirit.

However, when the copyright of a software is assigned to FSF, the software is
automatically under full control of FSF. Then the fact that it is currently licensed
by the GPL license is not relevant as the copyright holder has the option of
distributing the software under any license, provided of course that he is the
copyright holder of all the components.

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Henrik