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Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of GNU Universal Sys


From: Jeroen Dekkers
Subject: Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of GNU Universal System Simulator
Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 15:13:00 +0200
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On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 12:25:00PM +0200, Loic Dachary wrote:
> 
>       Hi,
> 
>       Unless I'm mistaken, GUSS is not (yet ;-) part of the the GNU
> project. Note that "GNU" is not a generic term that qualifies Free
> Software in general. It is a project started in 1984 whose purpose
> is to provide a Free Software operating system (GNU/Linux as we know
> it today). 

GNU/Linux is just a variant of the system provided by the GNU project,
GNU/Hurd is the real GNU system.

>       Could you please submit your project again with a name that does
> not contain the "GNU" prefix ? When the project produces a software that
> runs, you're welcome to apply for inclusion in the GNU project. 

> > Package: GNU Universal System Simulator

Would changing this to "GUSS is a Universal System Simulator" be okay?
Then I can keep the name "guss" because I like that more than "uss"
(and I don't have to submit the project again, I'm just lazy :-).

Jeroen Dekkers
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