Hello Gambas community! The GNU project[1] aims to develop the GNU system: an Unix-like operating system that is entirely free software[2]. It was launched in 1984, marking the beginning of the free software movement and has been ever since the pivotal point of philosophical, legal and technical development regarding software user's freedom. Since 1985 it is been sponsored by the FSF (Free Software Foundation)[3]: a nonprofit organization with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users.
Technically speaking, the GNU Project is also well known by its high quality software development tools, like compilers, interpreters and debuggers, and historically has influenced the Unix-like operating systems world and industry standards. However, in its 30 years of existence, although the GNU project has developed implementations for several languages, it has not done so for the Basic language. Therefore, as a member of the GNU project I want to invite the Gambas community to join the GNU community, making Gambas a GNU package[4] and thence the official implementation of the Basic language for the GNU operating system. The GNU project will provide the full infrastructure for development and will help to spread awareness of Gambas, promoting it as the de facto GNU Basic language implementation. As a GNU package, Gambas can benefit from FSF endorsement, and potentially fund raising campaigns and sponsoring. I commit myself to help wherever needed: with the forge migration from Sourceforge to GNU Savannah; with the compliance to the GNU Coding and Maintenance Standards, etc. What are your thoughts on that? Footnotes: [1] https://gnu.org/ [2] https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html [3] https://www.fsf.org/ [4] https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html -- ,= ,-_-. =. Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro (oitofelix) [0x28D618AF] ((_/)o o(\_)) There is no system but GNU; `-'(. .)`-' GNU Linux-Libre is one of its official kernels; \_/ All software must be free as in freedom;
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