[ds6-devel] GNU

[Simone Piunno]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 08:01:49PM +0100, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:

> > I've always wondered what it takes to get called GNU blah - can you
> > just call it that and hope that they don't mind?  Or do you have to
> > conform to their shameful coding standard?
> 
> not only you have to conform to their crappy coding standard, but you have
> to contact them and send them a declaration that guarantees them from
> being sued from developers for the copyright of the sources.
> 
> perhaps simone can be more precise about this.

There's no coding style requirement, it's only a suggestion.
There are many projects where GNU codings standards don't apply.

Although, AFAIK you must sign a sort of contract where FSF becomes 
the copyright holder for your work and you lose any right on it.
In the same contract, you guarantee that your work is entirely
untainted, e.g. you didn't use any other non-free piece of code.

for more info, check this: http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain.html

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