Some heavyweights, smaller, useful programs – and all free software: The summary of new program versions has time only software in view, which is available under GNU Public License. This is no coincidence.
Dreamy manifesto and also skillful business plan: 30 years ago, an idea began to take shape, the is regarded as the cornerstone of free software and later inspired the development of the Linux kernel. Richard M. Stallman published in 1985 in the March issue of the computer magazine Dr. Dobb’s Journal, a polemic with the name “GNU Manifesto”, which formulated an ideological as well as practical foundation of free software.
Stallman was until then a graduate student in the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT and its software projects, such as the Emacs editor no stranger to the Unix scene. This was from 1982 a creeping commercialization exposed than the antitrust conditions for the Group AT & T accounted for, the Unix and related programs had passed for free until then.
The philosophy of free software under GNU
The accompanying problem of proprietary software and Unix versions were in academia is not the cost, but the licensing restrictions. Lack source code, there was no way systems at a reasonable cost for the hardware used to adapt. This annoyed not only the scientific operations, but also the ethos of a whole generation of programmers. An alternative was needed. Richard Stallman was looking for allies for a free Unix, which he gave with a wink the recursive acronym “GNU” as the project name – of “GNU’s Not Unix”. What is meant by “free”, formulated the GNU Manifesto: It does not apply to the cost of freedom of software and programming services, but defining “free” as the freedom of users to change programs based on the source code and to pass under the same conditions , At the same time the Manifesto on practical questions of developers is a: Approximately how livelihoods can deny with free software. Even if the product itself is free, services to software and their adjustments are still a source of income, so the manifesto. The original text with numerous translations is worth reading and available at https://www.gnu.org/gnu/ manifesto.en.html.
From the points of the GNU Manifesto was created in 1989 the first version of the GNU Public License (GPL), which Linus Torvalds finally voted for the Linux kernel.
It’s still free, as the GPL permits: While GPL is the most popular license among the open source licenses today, so it is not the only and with its clause of ShareAlike conditions nor the Agreement with the greatest degree of freedom. The BSD license and the MIT license each permit distribution of modified code as a proprietary program, even without the provided source code.
Useful GNU projects for the present
Hear, hear: The Audio Editor Audacity has left with version 2.1.0 Time and invested a lot of work in the Preview function Just three years has taken the development of Audacity (GPL) version 2.1. Now there is a preview of audio effects, improved noise reduction and the ability to chain effects. A sorting function for plug-ins that are available via the interfaces VST and Ladspa available, brings order to plug-in collections.
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