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Should the GNU/name convention be applied to all programs that are GPLed?

April 26, 2017applied Convention GNU gpl'ed Programs

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Should the GNU/name convention be applied to all programs that are GPLed?

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We never refer to individual programs as “GNU/name”. When a program is a GNU package, we may call it “GNU name”. GNU, the operating system, is made up of many different programs. Some of the programs in GNU were written as part of the GNU Project or specifically contributed to it; these are the GNU packages, and we often use “GNU” in their names. It’s up to the developers of a program to decide if they want to contribute it and make it a GNU package. If you have developed a program and you would like it to be a GNU package, please write to , so we can evaluate it and decide whether we want it. It wouldn’t be fair to put the name GNU on every individual program that is released under the GPL. If you write a program and release it under the GPL, that doesn’t mean the GNU Project wrote it or that you wrote it for us. For instance, the kernel, Linux, is released under the GNU GPL, but Linus did not write it as part of the GNU Project—he did the work independently. If something