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0 pointsmort962y ago0 comments

You're just making this up aren't you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP#History

    The application subsequently formed part of the GNU software collection

And it's part of the list of "GNU Software" on this page: https://www.gnu.org/software/software.html (And no, that's not a list of all GPL-licensed software, it's a list of GNU software).

You're correct that it's not "maintained directly by the FSF", that's not how GNU operates, but I feel that GNU and the FSF has a responsibility for the health of the projects which are part of the GNU project.

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arp2422y ago· 2 in thread

https://www.gimp.org/develop/ says "historically part of the GNU Project".

I don't really know the current status or feelings of the GIMP developers, but I know GTK and GNOME have formally disassociated themselves from GNU, but it took them many years to get de-listed on that GNU packages page as Stallman flat-out refused to do so, as he believed that projects are unable to disassociate from GNU.

The GnuTLS people have had similar problems. It's still listed on that project page.

My point is: that page only reflects what Richard Stallman considers to be part of GNU, not what the developers of that project feel.

mort96OP2y ago

Well, https://www.gnu.org/software/software.html says it's currently a part of the GNU project.

It does not list GNOME or GTK, FWIW.

arp2422y ago

Yes, and like I said, it took the GTK/GNOME people years of complaining to get them removed, and the GnuTLS people still aren't removed after more than 10 years of complaining. LWN and other people documented the background on all of this to some extent, and if you're interested I think I have a text file with some link/details somewhere (which I can't seen to find momentarily).

So that list is worth bugger all for the purpose of this discussion.

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