[Nottingham] NLUG: What's in a name?

[Rory Holland]

How about this.
On the website, put a thing at the bottom that says:

"Linux is due to the tireless work of many groups and individuals. For
brevity, we use the word Linux, but acknowledge there is work by other
groups under this term"

Or words to that effect. Kind of like a disclaimer.

On 9 June 2011 21:52, Joshua Lock <incandescant at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9 June 2011 12:05, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > At the moment, we've got for our website the title:
> >
> > "Nottingham Linux Users Group"
> >
> > and the tagline:
> >
> > "For all and everyone Linux"
> >
> >
> > For those that know, what we commonly describe and use as "Linux" is
> > actually a vital chunk of "GNU" tools and utilities running on top of
> > a kernel. The "Linux" is actually 'just' the kernel. All of that is
> > protected by various flavours of the GPL 'copyleft' licence. Neither
> > part can work without the other for we commonly understand to be
> > 'Linux'... Indeed, I think the GPL has been essential for defending
> > the very existence of "GNU/Linux".
> >
> > Trying to be more descriptive, are there any objections/comments for
> > using the title:
> >
> > "Nottingham GNU/Linux Users Group"
>
> Really? Again? Are we going to suggest lug.org register glug.org and
> make this change?
>
> Now don't get me wrong, I have a lot of love for GNU and what Stallman
> and the FSF have done but I don't feel that the distinction is
> worthwhile to site visitors.
>
> The people who care know what it means and the people who don't may
> well learn in time.
>
> >
> > and the tagline:
> >
> > "For all and everyone and anything Free/Libre and Open Sourced"
> >
> > for the group website?
> >
> > (Is there a FLOSH for the hardware for FLOSS?! :-) )
> >
> >
> > What say you all?
>
> Will this distinction really attract more people to the group, or just
> be a verbose "correction" of the current name and tag line? :-)
>
> Joshua
> --
> Joshua Lock
>
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