From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:06:42 +1300 Message-ID: <18332.58450.182059.702244@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> References: <20071230122217.3CA84830B9A@snark.thyrsus.com> <4pd9g15e.fsf@blue.sea.net> <87r6g7z3m2.fsf@everybody.org> <87odbbngr8.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <20080125231308.57E9A30303@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> <873aslsck9.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <85bq77yxpf.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201464442 24045 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2008 20:07:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:07:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ams@gnu.org, stephen@xemacs.org, Miles Bader To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 27 21:07:41 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JJDn0-0004SX-To for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:07:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJDma-0004FI-5c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:07:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJDmU-0004Df-OM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:07:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JJDmT-0004C2-7W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:07:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JJDmT-0004Bv-2S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:07:05 -0500 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JJDmE-00081l-QV; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:06:51 -0500 Original-Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (81.61.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.61.81]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 020C03DA75D; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:06:48 +1300 (NZDT) Original-Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4B1BE8FC6D; Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:06:43 +1300 (NZDT) In-Reply-To: <85bq77yxpf.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 23.0.60.5 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:87651 Archived-At: > > Being part of the GNU Project is not an arbitrary label. > > It is not a label given for technical excellence. And as far as I am > able to see, the promotion to "GNU software" is not the result of a > competition for that title, but is granted when certain criteria are met > and an application is made. I have presumed that it requires assigning all copyright to the FSF which means that projects which have no record of authorship cannot become GNU projects. I'm interested to know what it means to be part of the GNU Project because I work on both Emacs and GDB but, in practice, I can see no formal synergy between the two, or preference towards each other. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob