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+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<!-- Parent-Version: 1.86 -->
+<title>About the GNU Operating System
+- GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/gnu/po/about-gnu.translist" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>About the GNU Operating System</h2>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>The name &ldquo;GNU&rdquo; is a recursive acronym for &ldquo;GNU's Not
+Unix!&rdquo;; it is pronounced as <a href="/gnu/pronunciation.html">
+one syllable with a hard g</a>.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>[<a href="/gnu/gnu.html">Other historical and general articles about
+GNU.</a>]</p>
+
+<p>GNU was launched by Richard Stallman (rms) in 1983, as an
+operating system which would be put together by people working
+together for the freedom of all software users to control their
+computing. rms remains the Chief GNUisance today.</p>
+
+<p>The primary and continuing goal of GNU is to offer a Unix-compatible
+system that would be 100% <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free
+software</a>. Not 95% free, not 99.5%, but 100%. The name of the
+system, GNU, is a recursive acronym meaning GNU's Not Unix&mdash;a way
+of paying tribute to the technical ideas of Unix, while at the same time
+saying that GNU is something different. Technically, GNU is like Unix.
+But unlike Unix, GNU gives its users freedom.</p>
+
+<p><a href="/distros/free-distros.html">Completely free system
+distributions</a> (&ldquo;distros&rdquo;) meeting this goal are
+available today, many using the <a
+href="http://www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/linux-libre/">Linux-libre kernel</a> (the <a
+href="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">relationship between GNU and the Linux
+kernel</a> is described more fully elsewhere). The <a
+href="/software/software.html">GNU packages</a> have been designed to
+work together so we could have a functioning GNU system. It has turned
+out that they also serve as a common &ldquo;upstream&rdquo; for many
+distros, so contributions to GNU packages help the free software
+community as a whole. Naturally, work on GNU is ongoing, with the goal
+to create a system that gives the greatest freedom to computer users.
+GNU packages include user-oriented applications, utilities, tools,
+libraries, even games&mdash;all the programs that an operating system
+can usefully offer to its users. <a href="/help/evaluation.html">New
+packages are welcome.</a> </p>
+
+<p>Thousands of people have joined in to make GNU the success it is
+today, and there are <a href="/help/help.html">many ways to
+contribute</a>, both technical and non-technical. GNU developers gather
+from time to time in <a href="/ghm/ghm.html">GNU Hackers Meetings</a>,
+sometimes as part of the larger free software community <a
+href="http://libreplanet.org/">LibrePlanet</a> conferences.</p>
+
+<p>GNU has been supported in several ways by the <a
+href="http://www.fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation</a>, the nonprofit
+organization also founded by rms to advocate free software ideals.
+Among other things, the FSF accepts copyright assignments and
+disclaimers, so it can act in court on behalf of GNU programs. (To be
+clear, contributing a program to GNU does <em>not</em> require
+transferring copyright to the FSF. If you do assign copyright, the FSF
+will enforce the GPL for the program if someone violates it; if you keep
+the copyright, enforcement will be up to you.)</p>
+
+<p>The ultimate goal is to provide free software to do all of the
+jobs computer users want to do&mdash;and thus make proprietary software
+a thing of the past.</p>
+
+</div><!-- for id="content", starts in the include above -->
+<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
+<div id="footer">
+<div class="unprintable">
+
+<p>Please send general FSF &amp; GNU inquiries to
+<a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org">&lt;gnu@gnu.org&gt;</a>.
+There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
+the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent
+to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org">&lt;webmasters@gnu.org&gt;</a>.</p>
+
+<p><!-- TRANSLATORS: Ignore the original text in this paragraph,
+ replace it with the translation of these two:
+
+ We work hard and do our best to provide accurate, good quality
+ translations. However, we are not exempt from imperfection.
+ Please send your comments and general suggestions in this regard
+ to <a href="mailto:web-translators@gnu.org">
+ &lt;web-translators@gnu.org&gt;</a>.</p>
+
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+Please see the <a
+href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">Translations
+README</a> for information on coordinating and submitting translations
+of this article.</p>
+</div>
+
+<!-- Regarding copyright, in general, standalone pages (as opposed to
+ files generated as part of manuals) on the GNU web server should
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+
+ There is more detail about copyright years in the GNU Maintainers
+ Information document, www.gnu.org/prep/maintain. -->
+
+<p>Copyright &copy; 2014, 2017, 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
+
+<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/">Creative
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License</a>.</p>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" -->
+
+<p class="unprintable">Updated:
+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2018/12/15 14:02:34 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
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