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

[Primoz Peterlin]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Loic Dachary wrote:

>  > ... 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.

OK, I see.

>       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 ;-)

Now you are giving me inspiration... :)

Best regards, Primoz

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