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<title>FSF Europe - What is the GNU-Project?</title>
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<h2>What is the GNU-Project?</h2>
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The GNU-Project has been started in 1984 by Richard M. Stallman in order
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to create a complete Unix-like operating system based on Free Software.
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He also started the "Free Software Foundation" to deal with the
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juristical and organizational aspects of the GNU-Project and also for
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spreading the use of and knowledge about Free Software. Through the Free
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Software Foundation the GNU General Public License and the GNU Lesser
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General Public License (originally called GNU Library Public License)
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have been formulated and over the years they established themselves as
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the most widely used licenses for Free Software.
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The GNU-Project consists of smaller sub-projects maintained by
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volunteers or corporations usually with the goal to create or maintain a
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functional component. These sub-projects themselves are also called "GNU
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Projects" or "official GNU Projects."
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The name of the GNU-Project is derived from the recursive acronym "GNU's
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Not Unix." Since Unix was originally not only a certain kind of system
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but rather a product, this sought to symbolize that the GNU Project has
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the goal to create a system compatible with but not identical to Unix.
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The GNU System is (like other Unix operating systems) modular and today
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especially the GNU System with Linux kernel - the so-called
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GNU/Linux-System - is widely used and provides the basis for every
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so-called "Linux-Distribution."
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<p><em> Georg C. F. Greve
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<<a href="mailto:greve@gnu.org">greve@gnu.org</a>></em></p>
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