Re: [Savannah-help-public] [gnu.org #221446] Is dominion a GNU package ?

[Sylvain Beucler via RT]

Hello,

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 08:22:44AM -0500, Karl Berry via RT wrote:
> Hi -- it is not in /gd/gnuorg/maintainers, not in the Free Software
> Directory, and has not been evaluated.  So I see no evidence that it is GNU.
> 
> However, there have been other packages which were dubbed GNU in the
> past and never got recorded.  So I suggest asking the author if they
> received an official dubbing message from rms (or something else along
> those lines).
> 
> I've also seen confused package authors think that if they are using the
> GPL, they are a GNU package ...
> 
> Hope this helps,

Hmm, the automatic mail sent from Savannah is not perfectly clear :/
Sorry about that.

Actually I had asked the person to contact new-gnu to officialize the
situation, but it looks like he didn't. I though maybe you would have
a trace of it.

Here's what he wrote during the registration process (Mon 06/09/2003
at 15:27):

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Here is the old email from RMS approving it as a GNU project.  Also
note that I am in correspondence with Mathieu and Rudy to incorporate
an old version of the CVS repository.

From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: a CVS repository for Dominion
To: address@hidden
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 02:17:17 -0600
Reply-to: address@hidden

    To call a product a GNU product, do I have to get an explicit
    endorsement on the part of the FSF?

Yes.

    I have been calling two of my recent projects Gnudl and GSL (GNU Data
    Language and Gnu Scientific Library), and I wonder if that's
    appropriate.

I'm willing to agree that to call them GNU software,
because I trust that you're doing a good job
and that they will be a credit to the GNU project.
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I guess the package is GNU, but was not registered properly.

-- 
Sylvain