Name of front-end

[Joe Buck]

On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 06:42:26PM +0100, 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.

Unfortunately, since the FSF allowed gnuplot to get away with it, their
ability to stop others is in question.  Given this history, I would still
say that we should strongly REQUEST people not to use "GNU XYZ" without
talking to the FSF, as it will only confuse the public.