{"id":1989,"date":"2010-08-30T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2024-08-30T14:52:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T12:52:13","slug":"my-projects-will-never-be-gnu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2010\/08\/30\/my-projects-will-never-be-gnu\/","title":{"rendered":"My projects will never be GNU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m maintaining a bunch of projects and at times I think about joining some kind of umbrella organization to find a foster family for the project. An organization that&#8217;s bigger than just that single project that possibly could be helpful in a lot of ways.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"94\" height=\"99\" src=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/gnu-head-banner.png\" alt=\"A gnu head!\" class=\"wp-image-22\" title=\"A gnu head!\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>One large and famous such umbrella project for free and open software is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/\">GNU<\/a>, Gnu&#8217;s Not Unix. To submit your software to GNU, they have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/help\/evaluation.html\">set of rules you need to obey<\/a>. and here&#8217;s my reasons why the projects I maintain most likely will not ever become GNU projects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>GNU programs should come with documentation in Texinfo format<\/em> &#8211; Oh man, so we need to provide an inferior documentation format of the docs for our software just to be GNU? It doesn&#8217;t make sense. And of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/05\/07\/burn-info-burn\/\">info also sucks<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>A GNU program should use the latest version of the license that the GNU Project recommends \u201dnot just any free software license.  For most packages, this means using the GNU GPL&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; for many existing projects the selected license was carefully chosen and if the project has existed for a while changing license is not an easy task. I would also consider it out of the question for many projects. A true stopping requirement for most of my projects.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>the documentation files and comments in the program should speak of GNU\/Linux systems, rather than calling the whole system Linux\u009d, and should use the term free software rather than open source<\/em> &#8211; blah. I often speak of &#8220;open source&#8221; and I like the term &#8220;Linux&#8221; because of its simplicity and it being easier to pronounce than GNU\/Linux.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In all, this just proves that I don&#8217;t share the religious and strong philosophical views on life and everything that the GNU people posses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m quite simply not a GNU person. I sympathize with their general goals and I know and support a lot of GNU hackers and projects. I just can&#8217;t make my projects join the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m maintaining a bunch of projects and at times I think about joining some kind of umbrella organization to find a foster family for the project. An organization that&#8217;s bigger than just that single project that possibly could be helpful in a lot of ways. One large and famous such umbrella project for free and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2010\/08\/30\/my-projects-will-never-be-gnu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My projects will never be GNU<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[157,19],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-politics","category-floss","tag-gnu","tag-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25444,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/25444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}