Not - they are adding GNU to their names, at the behest of GNU, as a matter of fact.
They are not claiming to be leaders of the GNU project and purposely breaking GNU policy. Just because an organization allows you to use their trademark for a purpose, that doesn't give someone permition to rip it off and then claim they are GNU leadership On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 10:57:47PM +0100, Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > Le mercredi 12 février 2020, 19:50:49 CET Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss) a > écrit : > > On 2020-02-10 07:32, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > > There were several pieces of feedback that were either not sent to the > > > public list, or are still held up in moderation. > > > > Maybe that contract should include a few clauses about not engaging > > in deceptive and illegal behavior. > > I disagree in regards to illegal. RMS and then GNU and FSF (at least by > the past) as well supported the view according which obeying an unjust > rule is unjust. They never prominently encouraged actively a blatant law- > breaking, as I’ve rarely seen such ambitious initiatives in free-software > projects, beside warez, but changing that would be a loss, and a radical > change we shouldn’t take > > There’s something present in several social movement, and in > free software and neuter/acentered internet as well that is called > “illegalism”. It can be reconduced to civil disobedience. It is present > in anarchism. This is a powerful tool, that’s part of «direct action” > (something you should be familiar with, given your behavior) that free- > software movement should be encouraged to use against hard things such as > DRM, tivoization, deceptive/emprisoning hardware, surveillance, etc. > > > You should not be using the GNU logo in that website or the word "gnu" > > in the domain name. > > Plenty of websites already do that. See any GLUG or free-software distro > supportive of GNU, or even gnuplot’s website. GNU is not really regarding > of brands. -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013