Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] F-word in project name?

[Jim Meyering]

Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:15:02AM +0200, Alexander Shulgin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just come across a submission of 'GNAFU' project:
>> https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?8763
>>
>> The abbreviation turns out to be this:
>>
>> # GNAFU - "Ground, Navy and Air Fuck-Up" ...
>>
>> see http://freehg.org/u/k0wax/s10/file/6808bc8c02ee/gnafu.py
>>
>> Do we have any policy against F-words in project names and/or
>> description?  I mean once approved, it becomes publicly displayed
>> info, so we might break law or something. ;)
>
> I don't think that's a problem.

They might _want_ to change it to "Foul-Up", at least in the
most visible places, in order to avoid disturbing the
overly-puritanical.

Just like the "FU" in FUBAR, there can be multiple interpretations.