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[Savannah-hackers] Re: flex project on savannah?
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Jaime E. Villate |
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[Savannah-hackers] Re: flex project on savannah? |
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Thu, 16 Jan 2003 20:59:14 +0000 |
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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