Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org> writes:

>> It's different.  BSD stands for Berkeley Software Distribution.  GPL
>> stands for "General Public License" and the FSF people call it "GNU
>> General Public License" when being formal/careful.
>
> The FSF people also say "GNU/Linux" when being formal/careful/all
> the time. However, I don't feel strongly enough about this one to
> dig my heels in, and I expect everyone's sick of me doing that
> already.

They say GNU/Linux when they want to rename something else, rather than
them as authors getting to name their creation.

I don't think it's that big a deal at all.  Given that this is just a
few chars in a line in a file, I don't think the extra hurts, and it
could reduce confusion over the next 5 years.

> And, if it's not obvious yet, I really do appreciate the work
> that people are doing in this area.

Thanks.  I appreciate it too - I've been working on license issues a
little bit on and off for what seems like eternity but I think is only 2
years.