[arch-general] Arch GNU/Linux install for beginners and new users

[Francis Gerund]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>
wrote:

> Am 22.09.2016 um 19:54 schrieb Francis Gerund via arch-general:
> > Chris,
> > Thank you for your interest.  Perhaps you may find this helpful:
> >
> > http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.en.html
>
> No, we don't find this helpful at all.
>
> The FSF has no right to forcefully rename what we call our OS. We call
> it "Arch Linux" because we like that name. We don't call it "Arch
> GNU/Linux" because that sounds stupid.
>
> The GPL explicitly allows us to distribute any software licensed under
> it freely. There is no clause in the GPL that we have to include the
> name "GNU" in our name in order to do so.
>
> By the FSF's argument, we should call it "Arch
> freedesktop/GNU/systemd/KDE/GNOME/Linux", but that sounds even worse.
>
>
>
>
Hi Thomas,

I have never said that you have to call it anything.  You are free to call
it whatever you want to.

And so am I.