Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- community
- Subclass of
- Q3251801
- Part of
- free software community
- Has part
- GNU Unifont
- Named after
- GNU
- Founded by
- Richard Stallman
- Industry
- software industry
- Legal form
- nonprofit organization
- Movement
- free software movement
- Official website
- gnu.org
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- topic's main category
- Category:GNU Project
- IRC channel URL
- irc://irc.freenode.net/gnu
- foundational text
- GNU Manifesto
- sponsor
- Q48413
- inception
- 1983-09-27
- Commons category
- GNU Project
- search formatter URL
- www.gnu.org/cgi-bin/estseek.cgi?phrase=$1
- product or material produced
- software
- topic has template
- Template:GNU
- affiliation
- Q48413
- partially coincident with
- Q48413
- mailing list archive URL
- lists.gnu.org/archive/html
- Stack Exchange tag
- opensource.stackexchange.com/tags/gnu
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Encyclopedic overview
GNU mascot, by Aurelio A. Heckert (derived from a more detailed version by Etienne Suvasa)
The GNU Project (/ɡnuː/ GNOO) is a free software, mass collaboration project announced by Richard Stallman on September 27, 1983. Its goal is to provide computer users freedom and control in their use of their computers and computing devices by developing and publishing software collaboratively that grants everyone the right to freely run, copy, distribute, study, and modify it. GNU software grants these rights in its license.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “GNU Project” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.