[Dev] [consensus][due: 2016-06-13]: New version for Parabola Social Contract
Luke Shumaker
lukeshu at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jun 10 03:59:54 GMT 2016
On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 22:55:26 -0400,
Richard Stallman wrote:
> > 1. In this formal context, I believe that we should use formal name
> > given to it by its developers.
>
> In this case, you have to choose to give this kind of respect
> either to the developers of Arch GNU/Linux or to the GNU Project.
> Respecting the former means joining them in disrespecting us.
Would you be happy (not feel disrespected) if we were to write the
following?
4. **Parabola and Arch Linux**: We will produce an operating
system that is a Free version of the GNU/Linux system
"Arch Linux" and possibly other Arch-based systems. ...
This would be/is the only place in the document where we refer to
Arch.
I believe that this acknowledges (without endorsing) the name that the
Arch developers have chosen, while still honoring GNU, and emphasizing
that Arch is a GNU/Linux system. Not endorsing them naming it that,
but merely acknowledging the fact that this is what the Arch
developers have named it.
As for respecting GNU: We call our operating system Parabola
GNU/Linux-libre. The only places in our documentation or operating
system where we write "Linux" without "GNU/" (or sometimes "GNU+") in
front is when referring specifically to just the kernel, or when
writing "Arch Linux". And when we do refer to Arch, the _vast_
majority of the time we _don't_ call it "Arch Linux" (calling it just
Arch), for the purpose of not disrespecting GNU.
--
Happy hacking,
~ Luke Shumaker
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