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Is this an official GNU project?

• mikegerwitz 9y ago
  Yes. https://www.gnu.org/software/ https://www.gnu.org/software/
• jordigh 9y ago
  I think the official terminology is that there is only one GNU project with many GNU packages, of which Taler, gcc, and Gnome are: just a package.
  • schoen 9y ago
    That terminology doesn't seem to be used very consistently, even by project maintainers: https://duckduckgo.com/?q="is+an+official+gnu+project" https://duckduckgo.com/?q="is+an+official+gnu+project"
    • mattl 9y ago
      Yeah, typically "part of the GNU project"
  • mikegerwitz 9y ago
    It varies, even internally. Officially, yes, it's "package". "GNU Project" (capital "P") refers to GNU itself. "Project foo is part of GNU" is also common. "A GNU project" isn't uncommon informally. On Savannah, they're "projects". The maintainers guide uses both---you can tell what was written early on, possibly by rms, vs. changes that happened later on.