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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Lee Daniel Crocker (talk | contribs) at 14:42, 20 March 2002. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

I don't think there's any "ambiguity" about CVS's status at all. Everyone knows its history and its current development, and neither of those involve the FSF except as a resource. It's not a GNU project, period. Anything on the GNU site that seems to indicate otherwise is simply mistaken. --LDC

Well, you'd have to define "GNU project" then. Do the programmers have to be paid by FSF? After all, FSF seems to own copyrights to parts of CVS. AxelBoldt

It gets rather confused at times. I worked on Gnucash, the GNOME accounting app, for a while. The copyright of the package is like Linux - it's GPL, and the copyright is owned by the individual authors, of whom there are quite a few. We discussed assigning the lot to the FSF, but we never got around to it. The project's web page, mailing list, and CVS archive was hosted on one of the developer's boxes. Given all that, I assumed that we weren't an "official" GNU project, and said so on the ML when somebody asked. I promptly got corrected by the original developer, who said RMS considered us so and mailed him privately on various issues on occasions. We shrugged and got back to work, and it makes no practical difference as far as we are concerned. --Robert Merkel

I suspect this is the case with CVS as well: Stallman simply claimed it as a GNU project without asking the devlopers what they think, and without the FSF having had anything to do with its creation or maintenance. --LDC


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