naming programs "GNU this-or-that"

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From: Richard Stallman
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1991 16:55

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    I don't understand "It's the right thing" (and as for confusion...)

"The right thing" means what will produce (in our opinion) the most
useful results.

    There's no GNU trademark

That's true.  However, trademarks are relevant only to legal issues,
which are not what we are discussing.  The question at hand is what 
recommendation we make to people who want to work on free software in
conjunction with the GNU project, about how to name their programs.

    and gnutar, or gnuucp which were started by hoptoad!gnu before the FSF
    was formed...

This isn't really relevant to the topic, but I think it is inaccurate
as well.  GNUUCP and GNU tar were started as part of the GNU project,
and the FSF already existed.

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