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翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jan-2023 18:25:41 JST 翠星石
@Moon If you put GNU in the name of your proprietary software program ("open source") and say that it's from GNU, the FSF will rightfully demand you stop doing so if such comes to their notice.
If you put it in the name of some free software, but it is otherwise clear that the software is not related to GNU, GNU may request that you change the name to avoid confusion, but won't force you to do so.
One example that I know of this happening wasn't in software, but rather was the name of a protocol: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gnutella.html
There are some proprietary and some free software gnutella clients, but really, why would you use anything by the free software clients?