[Savannah-help-public] non-gun

[Pickett, David]

Hi,

I feel the term non-GNU is not at all described, defined, or explained.  It
feels like there is a licensing difference, and yet no manifesto about the
relevance of being non-GNU, no questionnaire about the merits and
detractions of being GNU or non-GNU.  Non-GNU seems to be rather GNU
connected.  Certainly, being redirected from savannah.non-gnu.org to
savannah.gnu.org to gnu.org is confusing!  Is it some sort of prodigal child
welcomed home?

Of course, being open source is generally pretty close to being GNU, and
there are a lot of 'open' licenses out there with varying levels of required
source disclosure and restricted commercial use.  However, the non- prefix
makes me a lot more wary about downloading and using anything here, that the
license is somehow especially restricted.  With this description gap,
imagine the difficulties I might have explaining it to my managers.

I infer you are just a different development sharing milieu, an alternative
to sourceforge and the like, from what I read here:
 
http://savannah.gnu.org/faq/?group_id=5802&question=Savannah_-_Why_chosing_S
avannah.txt

Not just for me, but for the general public, non-GNU should either be well
explained somewhere on or just off the home page.  Since it is not at all
clear in what ways it is not GNU, the term might be dropped from use in
place of a more accurate term, like S-GNU, GNU-B, GNU-- or GNU2.

Best regards,

David