Emacs repository benchmark: bzr and git
Richard Stallman
rms at gnu.org
Sun Mar 30 06:49:39 BST 2008
Free software existed before we started GNU, but was few and
scattered; the only way you could use it was as add-ons to a non-free
system. The GNU system made it possible to use a computer and have
freedom.
The GNU Project's contribution was a legally enforcable license to ensure
share-and-share-alike for authors who chose to use the legal system to enforce
their politics.
The GNU Project developed a free operating system, GNU. (See
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html.) To do this, we
developed many programs, which are GNU packages. We still develop
more GNU packages and also accept existing programs into the GNU
Project when their developers wish.
As a supporting activity, we also developed a license for releasing
these programs as free software and defend freedom for all users.
That is the GNU GPL.
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