[Savannah-hackers] Re: submission of Nixal GNU/Linux Usr Grp Website ( NSEC, Kolkata) - savannah.gnu.org

[Mathieu Roy]

John Paul Wallington <address@hidden> said:

> > It seems to me that these GUG are not GNU Projects, but the Nixal
> > GNU/Linux Usr Grp during the registration asked to be considered as
> > part of the GNU Project.
> 
> That is probably my fault for not being clear.
> 
> http://savannah.gnu.org/register/ says:
> 
> You are welcome to host your project in Savannah if it falls within
> one of these 4 groups:
> 
> Software Project
> 
>       A Free Software package that can run on a completely free
>       operating system, without depending on any non-free
>       software. You can only provide versions for non-free operating
>       systems if you also provide free operating systems versions
>       with the same or more functionalities. Large software
>       distributions are not allowed; they should be split into
>       separate projects.
> 
> Free Documentation Projects
> 
>       Documentation for Free Software programs, released under a
>       Free Documentation License.
> 
> Free Educational Textbook Projects
> 
>       Projects aimed to create educational textbooks, released under
>       a Free Documentation License.
> 
> FSF/GNU projects
> 
>       Internal projects of the FSF and projects that have been
>       approved by the coordinator of the GNU project, Richard
>       Stallman.
> 
> ansuman asked me:
> 
> > And I dont know what catagory can we consider ourselves given the choices - 
> > "Software Project", "Free documentation project", "Free educational 
> > textbook 
> > project" or "FSF/GNU projects".
> 
> and I replied:
> 
> > You should qualify under FSF/GNU projects: your project has been
> > approved in principle by the coordinator of the GNU project, Richard
> > Stallman (you should probably mention that on the form, under step 2's
> > "other comments" field).
> 
> because that was the only criteria they satisfied.
> 
> Perhaps it should mention GUG projects as a fifth group ?

I think we should mention GUGs as group only if Richard decides to
accept any GUGs at Savannah, without his own review per case.

But your message indeed clarify why they asked "GNU".



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