[patch] credit where credit is due

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Sun, 28 Mar 1999 17:33:56 -0500 (EST)

> Richard Stallman writes:
...
> The operating system in which Linux is typically used is basically the
> GNU system, combined with Linux and somewhat modified. The GNU
> Project started development of this system, so we ought to get credit.
> Mentioning GNU in names of variants of the system is a way of giving
> credit. The best name to use for the Linux-based variant of the
> system is "GNU/Linux", which means, GNU and Linux together.

Ugh, can this loon get blocked as a spammer? :-) Well, this is
the 3rd offense. Every time, a huge flamewar results.

He keeps going off on this "GNU/Linux" thing. He's obviously wrong too,
because we wouldn't call this the "linux-kernel" list if the term "Linux"
alone referred to the kernel. We'd just call this the "linux" list.

To give him credit where credit is due, he should be listed in the
CREDITS file as the author of COPYING. That is what every contributer
deserves to get.

diff -Naur older/CREDITS linux/CREDITS
--- older/CREDITS Sun Mar 28 12:28:05 1999
+++ linux/CREDITS Sun Mar 28 12:31:53 1999
@@ -1814,6 +1814,12 @@
S: Cliffwood, New Jersey 07721
S: USA

+N: Richard Stallman
+E: rms@gnu.org
+W: http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/~davem/
+W: http://www.gnu.org/
+D: COPYING file
+
N: Henrik Storner
E: storner@image.dk
W: http://www.image.dk/~storner/

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