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Re: Is CVS non-gnu or gnu project


From: Spiro Trikaliotis
Subject: Re: Is CVS non-gnu or gnu project
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:15:32 +0100
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Hello,

* On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 08:56:52AM -0800 address@hidden wrote:
 
> "nongnu" - Does it means CVS is not a GNU project? I thought any
> software which released under GNU General Public License is considered
> as GNU project.

GNU and the GPL are two different things. Everyone can release his
project under GPL, but this does not automatically make it a GNU
project:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesUsingTheGPLForAProgramMakeItGNUSoftware

Interestingly, according to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html
and
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesAllGNUSoftwareUseTheGNUGPLAsItsLicense,
even GNU does not always use the GPL for its projects.

You might want to read http://www.gnu.org/.

HTH,
   Spiro.

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Spiro R. Trikaliotis                              http://cbm4win.sf.net/
http://www.trikaliotis.net/                     http://www.viceteam.org/




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