Re: [Fsfe-uk] License Information

[Loic Dachary]

Philip Hands writes:
 > 
 > I note that savannah wants one to use @gnu.org emails where possible,

        There is a misunderstanding. When registering a new user on
savannah, it checks if the corresponding e-mail <user>@gnu.org exists.
If yes it refuses to create the account even if it's available on
Savannah at the moment. The rationale is that someone (<user>@gnu.org)
would then be unable to get the <user> login on Savannah and that would
lead to unecessary inconsistencies in login names within the GNU project.

        Explaining all this on the Savannah pages may help.

 > This also makes me wonder how one applies for an @gnu.org address, and
 > whether I should bother.

        There is no specific reason/need to have a @gnu.org e-mail. I
mean it looks nice and may be useful to show that you're indeed
involved in the GNU project. Other that this it has no technical
implication.

        Cheers,

-- 
Loic   Dachary         http://www.dachary.org/  address@hidden
24 av Secretan         http://www.senga.org/      address@hidden
75019    Paris         Tel: 33 1 42 45 09 16        address@hidden
        GPG Public Key: http://www.dachary.org/loic/gpg.txt