[plug] OT SCO anyone familier with it ?

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

Ok that makes it clear as mud but at the end of the GNU is separate to 
the FSF is the GPL is different again.  I thought they were all 
inter-linked as in GNU software was using the GPL and FSF was anything 
that was opensource using the GPL.

Correct me if I'm wrong but all these different acronyms get a bit 
confusing.

Marc

James Devenish wrote:

>In message <410893B4.3050405 at smlintl.com.au>
>on Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 02:05:40PM +0800, Marc Wiriadisastra wrote:
>  
>
>>My apologies I actually thought it was for all since that web site is 
>>proposing the gnu mantra so I would have thought that it would have a 
>>list of all gnu software.
>>    
>>
>
>No worries, but just to clarify: the GNU website *does* have a list of
>all GNU software. All GNU software is (I assume) licensed under a
>version of GNU's licence, known as the GNU GPL. But GNU is a distinct
>project that represents only a "subnet" of all open-source software. Any
>person can license their own work using the GPL (because the licence can
>be used by anyone), but that does not mean such software becomes part of
>the GNU project itself. (It only forms part of the GNU project if it is
>inducted by the FSF -- I think that most GPL software projects exist
>outside of the GNU project.) Therefore, such projects are not "GNU
>software" and the FSF does not have a definitive list of them.
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>PLUG discussion list: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>http://mail.plug.linux.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug
>Committee e-mail: committee at plug.linux.org.au
>
>  
>