"GNU" and Ada

[Richard Stallman]

    Some people (mostly of the Ada for GNU/Linux Team) feel that there
    should be a "GNU" package hierarchy which collects bindings to GNU
    packages as well as independent Ada code (for example, a container
    library, or a reasonably designed interface to operating system
    features).  Sample packages could be "GNU.MP" (a binding to the GNU MP
    library, for dealing with numbers of arbitrary precision), "GNU.OS.IO"
    (operating system I/O routines for the GNU system), and so on.

It seems like a good idea.

    Someone is probably needed to maintain this shared namespace.  If no
    one else steps and nobdy objects, I am willing to do that.  I can also
    write a draft policy which describes the criteria according to which
    names under "GNU" are assigned.

We should use a very simple criterion: only official GNU packages
can have a GNU.* name.  If something is free software but not a
GNU package, we can use it and recommend it, but it should not
have a name which suggests it is a GNU package.

Are we actually in a position to decide which packages can have
a GNU.* name?  Will those people releasing non-free "GNU.*"
packages listen to us?