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• GNU: /gnoo/, *not* /noo/ 1. [acronym: `GNU's Not UNIX!
  ', see {{recursive acronym}}] A UNIX-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman &l...
• General Public Virus: n. Pejorative name for some versions of the {GNU} project {copyleft} or General Public License (GPL)
  which requires that any tools or {app}s incorporating copylefted code must be source-distributed on the same counter-commercial terms as GNU stuff....
• General Public Virus n. Pejorative name for some versions of the GNU project copyleft or General Public License (GPL)
  which requires that any tools or apps incorporating copylefted code must be source-distributed on the same anti-proprietary terms as GNU stuff....
• Linux /lee'nuhks/ or /li'nuks/, not /li:'nuhks/ n.
  The free Unix workalike created by Linus Torvalds and friends starting about 1991....
• oftware hoarding n. Pejorative term employed by members and adherents of the GNU project to describe the act of holding software proprietary
  keeping it under trade secret or license terms which prohibit free redistribution and modification....
• Brief History Of Linux (#21) The GNU Project Meet Richard M.
  Stallman, an MIT hacker who would found the GNU Project and create Emacs, the operating-system-disguised-as-a-text-editor....
• copyleft /kop'ee-left/ n. [play on `copyright'] 1.
  The copyright notice (`General Public License') carried by GNU EMACS and other Free Software Foundation software, granting reuse and reproduction rights to all comers (but see also General Public Virus)....
• free software n. As defined by Richard M. Stallman and used by the Free Software movement, this means software that gives users enough freedom to be used by the free software community.
  Specifically, users must be free to modify the software for their private use, and free to redistribute it either with or without modifications, either commercially or noncommercially, either gratis or charging a distribution fee....
• ecursive acronym:: pl.n. A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to choose acronyms/abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to other acronyms/abbreviations.
  The classic examples were two MIT editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not EMACS") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially")....