> Well, I am very sympathetic to GNU, and my initial reaction to > "nongnu" was to interpret it as rejecting GNU, which I thought > strange in the context. I think I would have reacted differently > to, say, "pregnu.org" or "pre-gnu.org" ;-)
I think you're misunderstanding here. nongnu.org is for programs that are licensed under a GNU Free Software license but have not (yet) been donated to and/or accepted by the GNU project. You can find many GPL'd programs here that are not yet a part of the GNU project itself either because the programs have not been donated to and/or accepted by the GNU project. At the very top of the savannah.nongnu.org page you will see the following: "We host free projects that run on free operating systems and without any proprietary software dependencies.". It does *NOT* say that it hosts projects that are in preparation for becoming a part of the GNU project! As a developer, I get the choice to keep the copyright on my code, but as long as my project runs on free operating systems without proprietary software dependencies, Savannah is happy to host my source code repositories (etc.). I hope this helps clear things up, Jim James E. Prewett [email protected] [email protected] Systems Team Leader LoGS: http://www.hpc.unm.edu/~download/LoGS/ Designated Security Officer OpenPGP key: pub 1024D/31816D93 HPC Systems Engineer III UNM HPC 505.277.8210
