[Introspector-developers] Fwd: Re: Request for the name GNUVCG
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From: James M. D. <mdu...@ya...> - 2002-11-18 09:34:21
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Here is the mail from the GNU organization about the GNUVCG name. mike > Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 11:03:32 -0500 > From: toby cabot <to...@gn...> > To: James Michael DuPont <mdu...@ya...> > CC: gn...@gn..., gv...@gn..., ta...@gn... > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 02:18:22AM -0700, James Michael DuPont wrote: > > I am taking over the maintence of a free software tool VCG, and > > would like to use the name GNU in its name. > > The VCG is a visualization of compiler graphs, used by many free > > software tools including the gcc. > > > > http://rw4.cs.uni-sb.de/users/sander/html/gsvcg1.html > > > > To be named GNUVCG. Do you have any objection to that? > > > > Other names might be GVCG, GNUViz or GViz > > Hi James, > > On behalf of the GNU project I'd like to apologize for the delay in > responding to your message. This doesn't mean that it's unimportant > to us - just that we're a volunteer group with more work than time. > > The name GNU may be used only by official GNU programs. If you'd > like > VCG to be a GNU program then GNUVCG would be OK. I'll attach a brief > explanation of what it means to be a GNU program to this message, but > in a nutshell it means that the program should be consistent with > other GNU programs. > > In an interesting coincidence, the GNU project has until recently had > an item on its tasklist that refers to our desire for a "library for > automatic graph layout." So if you decided that you'd like VCG to be > a GNU program it's likely (although not certain) that it would be > accepted. > > Please let me know if you're interested and I'll give you more > details > and/or help you get the process rolling. > > Regards, > Toby Cabot (GNU Project Volunteer Coordinator) > ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com |