Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Free UCS Scalable Fonts

[Loic Dachary]

Primoz Peterlin writes:
 > 
 > Let's suppose that some day it will. What's the policy on project
 > candidates that become GNU projects? Are they supposed to change system
 > name?

        No they are not. They usually keep their original name and change
the long name to include GNU. 

 > Although I see little chance for confusion - after all, I believe that
 > savannah-hackers list is read by a well-informed bunch of people being
 > aware that a project candidate they have never previously heard of is not
 > a GNU project - I have resubmitted the project with a different name.

        Thanks for your understanding. You'd be surprised to know the 
amount of confusion generated by the use of GNU for software packages
that are not part of the GNU project. One striking example is www.gnupki.org
which generated immense troubles all over Europe. I'm exagerating a bit
but you can imagine the kind of confusing such a project generates when
it applies for European Commission fundings ;-)

        Cheers,

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