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词条 GNU Project
释义

  1. Origins

  2. GNU Manifesto

  3. Philosophy and activism

  4. Free software

  5. Funding

  6. Copyleft

  7. Operating system development

  8. Linux

      GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines  

  9. Strategic projects

      GNOME    {{anchor | GNU Enterprise}}GNU Enterprise  

  10. Recognition

  11. See also

  12. References

  13. External links

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The GNU Project ({{IPAc-en|audio=En-gnu.ogg|ɡ|n|uː}})[3] is a free-software, mass-collaboration project, first announced on September 27, 1983 by Richard Stallman at MIT. Its aim is to give computer users freedom and control in their use of their computers and computing devices, by collaboratively developing and providing software that is based on the following freedom rights: users are free to run the software, share it (copy, distribute), study it and modify it. GNU software guarantees these freedom-rights legally (via its license), and is therefore free software; the use of the word "free" always being taken to refer to freedom.

In order to ensure that the entire software of a computer grants its users all freedom rights (use, share, study, modify), even the most fundamental and important part, the operating system (including all its numerous utility programs), needed to be free software. According to its manifesto, the founding goal of the project was to build a free operating system and, if possible, "everything useful that normally comes with a Unix system so that one could get along without any software that is not free." Stallman decided to call this operating system GNU (a recursive acronym meaning "GNU's not Unix"), basing its design on that of Unix, a proprietary operating system.[4] Development was initiated in January 1984. In 1991, the Linux kernel appeared, developed outside the GNU project by Linus Torvalds,[5] and in December 1992 it was made available under version 2 of the GNU General Public License.[6] Combined with the operating system utilities already developed by the GNU project, it allowed for the first operating system that was free software, commonly known as Linux.[7][8]

The project's current work includes software development, awareness building, political campaigning and sharing of the new material.

Origins

Richard Stallman announced his intent to start coding the GNU Project in a Usenet message in September 1983.[9]

When the GNU project first started they had an Emacs text editor with Lisp for writing editor commands, a source level debugger, a yacc-compatible parser generator, and a linker".[10] The GNU system required its own C compiler and tools to be free software, so these also had to be developed. By June 1987, the project had accumulated and developed free software for an assembler, an almost finished portable optimizing C compiler (GCC), an editor (GNU Emacs), and various Unix utilities (such as ls, grep, awk, make and ld).[11] They had an initial kernel that needed more updates.

Once the kernel and the compiler were finished, GNU was able to be used for program development. The main goal was to create many other applications to be like the Unix system. GNU was able to run Unix programs but was not identical to it. GNU incorporated longer file names, file version numbers, and a crashproof file system. The GNU Manifesto was written to gain support and participation from others for the project. Programmers were encouraged to take part in any aspect of the project that interested them. People could donate funds, computer parts, or even their own time to write code and programs for the project.[4]

The origins and development of most aspects of the GNU Project (and free software in general) are shared in a detailed narrative in the Emacs help system. (C-h g runs the Emacs editor command describe-gnu-project.) It is the same detailed history as at their web site.

GNU Manifesto

{{Main article | GNU Manifesto}}

The GNU Manifesto was written by Richard Stallman to gain support and participation in the GNU Project. In the GNU Manifesto, Stallman listed four freedoms essential to software users: freedom to run a program for any purpose, freedom to study the mechanics of the program and modify it, freedom to redistribute copies, and freedom to improve and change modified versions for public use.[12][13] To implement these freedoms, users needed full access to code. To ensure code remained free and provide it to the public, Stallman created the GNU General Public License (GPL), which allowed software and the future generations of code derived from it to remain free for public use.

Philosophy and activism

{{Main article | Free software movement}}

Although most of the GNU Project's output is technical in nature, it was launched as a social, ethical, and political initiative. As well as producing software and licenses, the GNU Project has published a number of writings, the majority of which were authored by Richard Stallman.

Free software

The GNU project uses software that is free for users to copy, edit, and distribute. It is free in the sense that users can change the software to fit individual needs. The way programmers obtain the free software depends on where they get it. The software could be provided to the programmer from friends or over the Internet, or the company a programmer works for may purchase the software.

Funding

Proceeds from associate members, purchases, and donations support the GNU project.[14]

Copyleft

{{main article | Copyleft}}

Copyleft is what helps maintain free use of this software among other programmers. Copyleft gives the legal right to everyone to use, edit, and redistribute programs or programs' code as long as the distribution terms do not change. As a result, any user who obtains the software legally has the same freedoms as the rest of its users do.

The GNU Project and the FSF sometimes differentiate between "strong" and "weak" copyleft. "Weak" copyleft programs typically allow distributors to link them together with non-free programs, while "strong" copyleft strictly forbids this practice. Most of the GNU Project's output is released under a strong copyleft, although some is released under a weak copyleft or a lax, push-over free software license.[15][16]

Operating system development

{{main article|GNU}}

The first goal of the GNU project was to create a whole free-software operating system. By 1992, the GNU project had completed all of the major operating system utilities, but had not completed their proposed operating system kernel, GNU Hurd. With the release of the Linux kernel, started independently by Linus Torvalds in 1991, and released under the GPL with version 0.12 in 1992, for the first time it was possible to run an operating system composed completely of free software. Though the Linux kernel is not part of the GNU project, it was developed using GCC and other GNU programming tools and was released as free software under the GNU General Public License.[17]

As of present, the GNU project has not released a version of GNU/Hurd that is suitable for production environments since the commencement of the GNU/Hurd project over {{Time ago|Dec 31, 1990}}.[18]

Linux

Today a stable version (or variant) of GNU can be run by combining the GNU packages with the Linux kernel, making a functional Unix-like system. The GNU project calls this GNU/Linux, and the defining features are the combination of:

  • GNU packages[19][20] (except for GNU Hurd)
    The GNU packages consist of numerous operating system tools and utilities (shell, coreutils, compilers, libraries, etc.)[19][20] including a library implementation of all of the functions specified in POSIX System Application Program Interface (POSIX.1).[21][22] The GCC compiler can generate machine-code for a large variety of computer-architectures.[23]
  • Linux kernel – this implements program scheduling, multitasking, device drivers, memory management, etc. and allows the system to run on a large variety of computer-architectures.[24] Linus Torvalds released the Linux kernel under the GNU General Public License in 1992;[25] it is however not part of the GNU project.[26][27][28][29]
  • non-GNU programs - various free software packages which are not a part of the GNU Project but are released under the GNU General Public License or another FSF-approved Free Software License.

Within the GNU website, a list of projects is laid out and each project has specifics for what type of developer is able to perform the task needed for a certain piece of the GNU project. The skill level ranges from project to project but anyone with background knowledge in programming is encouraged to support the project.

The packaging of GNU tools, together with the Linux kernel and other programs, is usually called a Linux distribution (distro). The GNU Project calls the combination of GNU and the Linux kernel "GNU/Linux", and asks others to do the same,[30] resulting in the GNU/Linux naming controversy.

Today most Linux distros combine GNU packages with a Linux kernel which contains proprietary binary blobs and a number of proprietary programs.

GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines

{{Anchor|Free System Distribution Guidelines (GNU FSDG)|GNU FSDG|FSDG}}

The GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines (GNU FSDG) is a system distribution commitment used to explain what it means for an installable system distribution (such as a Linux distribution) to qualify as free (libre), and help distribution developers make their distributions qualify.

Mostly this includes distributions that are a combination of GNU packages with a Linux-libre kernel (a modified Linux kernel, that removes binary blobs, obfuscated code and portions of code under proprietary licenses) and consist only of free software (eschewing proprietary software entirely).[31][32][33] Distributions that have adopted the GNU FSDG includes Dragora GNU/Linux-libre, gNewSense, Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre, Parabola GNU/Linux-libre, Trisquel GNU/Linux, Ututo, and a few others.[34]

The Fedora Project distribution license guidelines were used as a basis for the FSDG.[35]

Strategic projects

{{see also | Free Software Foundation#High priority projects}}

From the mid-1990s onward, with many companies investing in free software development, the Free Software Foundation redirected its funds toward the legal and political support of free software development. Software development from that point on focused on maintaining existing projects, and starting new projects only when there was an acute threat to the free software community. One of the most notable projects of the GNU Project is the GNU Compiler Collection, whose components have been adopted as the standard compiler system on many Unix-like systems.

GNOME

The GNOME desktop effort was launched by the GNU Project because another desktop system, KDE, was becoming popular but required users to install Qt, which was then proprietary software. To prevent people from being tempted to install KDE and Qt, the GNU Project simultaneously launched two projects. One was the Harmony toolkit. This was an attempt to make a free software replacement for Qt. Had this project been successful, the perceived problem with the KDE would have been solved. The second project was GNOME, which tackled the same issue from a different angle. It aimed to make a replacement for KDE that had no dependencies on proprietary software. The Harmony project didn't make much progress, but GNOME developed very well. Eventually, the proprietary component that KDE depended on (Qt) was released as free software.[36]

{{anchor | GNU Enterprise}}GNU Enterprise

GNU Enterprise (GNUe) is a meta-project started in 1996,[37] and can be regarded as a sub-project of the GNU Project. GNUe's goal is to create free "enterprise-class data-aware applications" (enterprise resource planners etc.). GNUe is designed to collect Enterprise software for the GNU system in a single location (much like the GNOME project collects Desktop software).

Recognition

In 2001, the GNU Project received the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award for "the ubiquity, breadth, and quality of its freely available redistributable and modifiable software, which has enabled a generation of research and commercial development".[38]

See also

{{Portal| Free and open-source software}}
  • Free Software Foundation
  • GNU Free Documentation License
  • List of GNU packages
  • 9965 GNU

References

1. ^{{cite web | url = https://www.gnu.org/graphics/heckert_gnu.html | title = A Bold GNU Head | accessdate = November 30, 2014 | quote =We thank Aurelio A. Heckert...for donating this graphic to us.}}
2. ^{{cite web | url = https://www.gnu.org/graphics/agnuhead.html | title = A GNU Head | accessdate = November 30, 2014 | quote = This graphic was drawn by Etienne Suvasa}}
3. ^{{cite web | url = https://gnu.org | title = What is GNU? | work = The GNU Operating System | date = September 4, 2009 | publisher = Free Software Foundation | accessdate = 2009-10-09 | quote = The name "GNU" is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not Unix!"; it is pronounced g-noo, as one syllable with no vowel sound between the g and the n.}}
4. ^{{cite web | url = https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html | title = The GNU Manifesto | date = July 21, 2007 | publisher = Free Software Foundation | accessdate = 2015-10-08}}
5. ^{{cite web | url = https://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/msg/b813d52cbc5a044b | title = comp.os.minix | accessdate = 2009-09-06 | last = Torvalds | first = Linus Benedict | date=August 1991}}
6. ^z-archive of Linux version 0.99{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, kernel.org, December 1992
7. ^{{cite web | title = The linux-kernel mailing list FAQ | url = http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s1-1 | work = The Linux Kernel Archives | publisher = Kernel.org | accessdate = 2013-06-13 | author = Andrew D. Balsa | author2 = Coauthors | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20121001231709/http://vger.kernel.org/lkml/#s1-1 | archivedate = 2012-10-01 | quote = ...we have tried to use the word "Linux" or the expression "Linux kernel" to designate the kernel, and GNU/Linux to designate the entire body of GNU/GPL'ed OS software,... ...many people forget that the linux kernel mailing list is a forum for discussion of kernel-related matters, not GNU/Linux in general...}}
8. ^{{cite web | title = Losing graciously | url = http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316 | accessdate = 27 April 2014 | author = Mark Shuttleworth | authorlink = Mark Shuttleworth | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140322130122/http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316 | archivedate = 22 March 2014 | date=14 February 2014 | quote = today our focus is on the cloud and on mobile, and we are quite clearly leading GNU/Linux on both fronts}}
9. ^{{cite web | url = https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/net.unix-wizards/8twfRPM79u0/1xlglzrWrU0J | title = new Unix implementation | author = Richard Stallman}}
10. ^Wardrip-Fruin, Noah; and Nick Montfort. "The GNU Manifesto." The NewMediaReader. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, 2003. pp.545-550.
11. ^{{cite web | url = https://www.gnu.org/bulletins/bull3.html#SEC11 | title = GNU's Bulletin, vol. 1 no. 3 | date = June 1987 | work = gnu.org}}
12. ^{{cite web | url = https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html | title = The GNU Manifesto - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) | first = Richard | last = Stallman | authorlink = Richard Stallman | work = gnu.org | publisher = GNU Project | date = March 1985 | accessdate = 2011-10-18}}
13. ^Weber, S. (2004). The Success of Open Source. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
14. ^[https://www.gnu.org/help/help.html#funds Helping the GNU Project and the Free Software Movement – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation]. gnu.org. Retrieved on 2013-07-17.
15. ^{{Cite web|url=https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Ncurses/|title=Ncurses|last=|first=|date=|website=wiki.freedesktop.org|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-03-18|quote=It is one of the few GNU files not distributed under the GNU General Public License or GNU Lesser General Public License; it is distributed under a license like the X11 License}}
16. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html|title=Why you shouldn't use the Lesser GPL for your next library|last=|first=|date=|website=GNU|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=|quote=There are reasons that can make it better to use the Lesser GPL in certain cases.}}
17. ^{{cite web | url = https://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/browse_thread/thread/76536d1fb451ac60/b813d52cbc5a044b | title = What would you like to see most in minix? | author = Linus Benedict Torvalds | publisher = comp.os.minix | date = August 26, 1991}}
18. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/status.html|title=GNU Hurd/ hurd/ status|website=GNU Operating System|publisher=Free Software Foundation|access-date=2018-04-15|quote="It may not be ready for production use, as there are still some bugs and missing features."}}
19. ^{{cite web | url = https://www.gnu.org/software/software.html#allgnupkgs | title = All GNU packages | work = gnu.org}}
20. ^GNU @ Free Software Directory (fsf.org)
21. ^[https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/POSIX.html POSIX - The GNU C Library]
22. ^GNU C Library#A temporary fork
23. ^GCC Architectures
24. ^[https://www.kernel.org/#whatislinux The Linux Kernel Archives]
25. ^Release Notes for Linux v0.12
26. ^[https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#allgpled Should the GNU/name convention be applied to all programs that are GPL'ed?] GNU/Linux FAQ by Richard Stallman
27. ^[https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#whyslash Why do you write “GNU/Linux” instead of “GNU Linux”?] GNU/Linux FAQ by Richard Stallman
28. ^[https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#claimlinux Isn't it wrong for us to label Linus Torvalds' work as GNU?] GNU/Linux FAQ by Richard Stallman
29. ^[https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#linusagreed Does Linus Torvalds agree that Linux is just the kernel?] GNU/Linux FAQ by Richard Stallman
30. ^[https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#why Why do you call it GNU/Linux and not Linux?]
31. ^{{cite web | url = https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html | title = Guidelines for Free System Distributions | work = gnu.org}}
32. ^{{cite web | url = https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/compromise.html | title = Avoiding Ruinous Compromises | work = gnu.org}}
33. ^{{cite web | url = https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html#Debian | title = Explaining Why We Don't Endorse Other Systems | work = gnu.org}}
34. ^{{cite web | url = https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html | title = List of Free GNU/Linux Distributions – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation | work = gnu.org | accessdate = 2014-08-18}}
35. ^{{cite web | url = https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html | title = Free System Distribution Guidelines (GNU FSDG) - GNU Project | publisher = publisher | work = gnu.org | accessdate = 2014-06-07 | quote = We would like to thank the Fedora Project for their help in focusing these policies, and allowing us to use their own distribution license guidelines as a basis for this document.}}
36. ^{{cite web | url = http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-09-05-001-21-OP-LF-KE | author = Richard Stallman | title = Stallman on Qt, the GPL, KDE, and GNOME | publisher = Linux Today | date = September 5, 2000 | accessdate = 2005-09-09 }}
37. ^{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116060106/http://www.gnuenterprise.org:80/community/history.php|title=GNU Enterprise Project History - GNU Enterprise|date=2013-01-16|website=web.archive.org|access-date=2019-02-18}}
38. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.usenix.org/directory/flame.html | title = USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award ("The Flame") | publisher = USENIX | accessdate=2007-12-05}}

External links

  • {{official website}}
  • The GNU Free Software Directory
  • [https://www.gnu.org/software/gnue/gnue.html GNU Enterprise]
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