On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:23:51AM +0000, Noah Slater wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:30:35PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote: > > In addition to what the others wrote ... well, it is simply a > > fundamental distinction. GNU packages have been accepted as part of > > GNU, and as you know there is a nontrivial process for that. Non-GNU > > packages have not. I'm a bit baffled as to why you're asking. > > Sorry, in retrospect perhaps I worded my question confusingly. > > What I really meant to ask is why is there is a distinction made like this: > > http://savannah.gnu.org/ > http://savannah.nongnu.org/ > > I agree that it's an important distinction to make, but I was wondering if it > would make more sense to have everything under savannah.gnu.org and > differentiate using a different set of page templates or similar for GNU.
I think it's good to have the 'nongnu.org' URL, because this prevents people from believing a non-GNU project is GNU. When people see something at gnu.org, they usually assume endorsement (I even remember a teacher believing flex was GNU because it was hosted somewhere at ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/). -- Sylvain
