Re: what is the current status of GPL v3

[David Kastrup]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:

>    > GNU isn't a compilation of programs either.  It is a operating
>    > system.
>
>    Well, whatever it is, it isn't Unix!
>
> :-)
>
>    GNU is more than an operating system - Emacs, for example, is part
>    of GNU, though it's definitely not part of an OS, and there are
>    LOTS of GNU programs like that.
>
> Emacs is indeed part of the GNU operating system.  Each and every
> GNU project is part of the GNU operating system.  Note that GNU is
> the system that the GNU project is developing.

No.  GNU is the system that the GNU project is putting together.
Parts of this system are actually developed by the GNU projects,
others are just assembled.

>    This is the "mere aggregation" that the GPL talks about - lots of
>    independent programs packaged together on a single CD or a single
>    FTP site.
>
> It is `mere aggregation' for other operating systems, like
> GNU/Linux.

It is mere aggregation for GNU/Hurd as well, with some adaptation
(like of the BSDlite networking utilities) to boot.

> GNU Emacs might be part of the operating system for some specific
> distribution of GNU/Linux though.

You are really embarrassing when your propaganda urge goes out of
control.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum