Microkernel (GNU Hurd) or Monolithic kernel (GNU Linux-libre, fork of Linux)
Userland
GNU
License
GNU GPL, GNU LGPL, GNU AGPL, GNU FDL, GNU FSDG[1][2]
Official website
gnu.org
GNU (/ɡnuː/ⓘ)[3][4] is an extensive collection of free software (385 packages as of September 2023[update][5]), which can be used as an operating system or can be used in parts with other operating systems.[6][7][8] The use of the completed GNU tools led to the family of operating systems popularly known as Linux.[9] Most of GNU is licensed under the GNU Project's own General Public License (GPL).
Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU project
GNU is also the project within which the free software concept originated. Richard Stallman, the founder of the project, views GNU as a "technical means to a social end".[10] Relatedly, Lawrence Lessig states in his introduction to the second edition of Stallman's book Free Software, Free Society that in it Stallman has written about "the social aspects of software and how Free Software can create community and social justice".[11]
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^Raymond, Eric (February 1, 2001). The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". pp. 10–12. ISBN 978-0-59600108-7.
^"1.2. What is GNU/Linux?". www.debian.org. Retrieved August 24, 2020.
^Stallman, Richard (1986), "KTH", Philosophy (speech), GNU, Stockholm, Sweden: FSF.
^Stallman, Richard M.; Gay, Joshua (December 2009). Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays Of Richard M. Stallman. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 9781441436856. Retrieved March 24, 2016. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
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