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Re: Name of front-end
On Saturday 06 December 2003 18:42, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Henrik Sorensen wrote:
> > But does it matter for the name of the front-end, whether or not the
> > copyright has been assigned ?
>
> No necessarily, as far as I know. However, you must not call any software
> "GNU Something" unless the FSF explicitly approved that, so you should do
> that first.
That's one of the reasons I ask.
Anyway, I got enough answers that basically all say the same thing, that the
copyrigths ought to be assigned to FSF.
>
> (I don't have the link handy, but I'm quite sure there is something on the
> main GNU site at http://www.gnu.org.)
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain.html#SEC_Top
> Gerald
Thanks to all who replied
Henrik