History, Software, and Licences of the GNU Project Including the Gnu Manifesto, Gnome, Gnu Core Utilities, Gnu Icecat, and Gnu General Public License

By: Sing, Patrick

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The GNU Project is a free, mass collaboration project, announced on September 27, 1983, by Richard Stallman at MIT. It initiated the GNU operating system, software development for which began in January 1984. The founding goal of the project was, in the words of its initial announcement, to develop "a sufficient body of free software ...] to get along without any software that is not free." GNU is meant to be free, not in price, but in being unrestricted by other distributors to modify the program as necessary. Any programmer is therefore given full access to all source code and projects created using GNU, with the requirement of then posting any changes made publicly for other users to benefit from as well. Current work of the GNU Project includes software development, awareness building, political campaigning and sharing of the new material. This book studies the GNU project including GNU variants, Emacs, GNUnet, Gnash, and GPL linking exception.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 128683547X
• ISBN13: 9781286835470
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Webster's Digital Services
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.4" x 9.7"