Why no mention of GNU?

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Jonas Jørgensen wrote:

> Guido Heumann wrote:
>
>> So to me it seems as if the Canonical people ( or should I say Ubuntu
>> people?) are trying to take a very balanced approach to this issue.
>> Though i would appreciate the mentioning of GNU at least in the context
>> of Debian GNU/Linux.
>
>
> One thing I don't recall seeing mentioned in this thread is the
> default Firefox start page. It talks about Linux, Gnome, Debian and
> OOo and the role each of them plays in the Ubuntu operating system. I
> think that page would be a fitting place to mention GNU or the FSF.

I've been buried in the guts of launchpad and not reading mail for the
past month, so I've just caught up on this thread now. I agree entirely
that it would be appropriate to include the GNU project on that page.
Here's some starting text:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CreditToGnu

Please bang on that, and when Mako thinks it's golden, let's patch the
default package. I think we need to acknowledge the KDE community too,
though I'm not sure if we maintain different versions of that file for
Kubuntu and Ubuntu.

Erik, thanks for raising the question!

Mark