[Savannah-hackers] Re: flex project on savannah?

[Jaime E. Villate]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:22:22PM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote:
>         that rewrites to
> 
>         http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xmlnotes/
> 
> 
>         This causes major confusion.  It looks like xmlnotes is part of the 
> GNU
>         project.
> 
> According to RMS and Bradley Kuhn, non-GNU project with a GNU url is a
> highly problematic issue. There are maybe special cases: it has to
> be said in a preeminent place so everyone does not have to guess any
> implicit/private choices made. Because anyway those choice have public
> consequences.

Notice that in the messages that you quote they do not say anything
against:
   http://www.gnu.org/software/xmlnotes

what they complain about is:
   http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xmlnotes/

There is a difference. In the first one "www" shows that it is a website
and it includes information about software. The first URL is not perceived
as saying that xmlnotes is a GNU project in the same sense that
http://www.gnu.org/directory/abiword.html is not perceived as an implication
that AbiWord is a GNU project.

In the second case, savannah.gnu.org is identified as a project server
for the GNU project, with projects that appear under 
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/
thus, the second URL would give the idea that xmlnotes is a GNU project.

Jaime