Thank you for releasing a useful free software package and for using a
license from the GNU Project.
I'd like to ask you to change one aspect of your announcement, though.
It has to do with the name of an operating system that was also
developed (mainly) by the GNU Project:
SGI has received numerous requests for a Linux version of Open Inventor. By
open-sourcing this toolkit we are making it available on Linux and at the
A package like Open Inventor normally has little direct interaction
with a kernel such as Linux. So you must be talking about the larger
system. Since the GNU Project is its main developer, and Linux was
written and added at the last stage of development, would you please
call the system "GNU/Linux" and give us a share of the credit?
See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html for more explanation.
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