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The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative

The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative

Posted Apr 19, 2007 20:34 UTC (Thu) by xtifr (subscriber, #143)
In reply to: The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative by atai
Parent article: The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative

It's both (or either), depending on how you look at it. To put it in programmatic terms, the GNU license is the class; the GNOME license is the instance. Anyway, the "G" in GNOME stands for "GNU", and the GNOME project is loosely under the wing of the GNU project (though not, as I understand it, under the control of the FSF). From http://www.gnome.org/about/ : "GNOME is Free Software and part of the GNU project [...]"


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