Gnu+Gpl

  It was created by many people that just came up with it to help the well being of others by the names of Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds and others. The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is [|free software]. This GNU public license is basically an operating system which was bulit on the thought of free software. The GNU d iffers from Unix by being free software and by not containing any [|Unix] code. This program was backed up by the [|Free Software Foundation].     Stallman had quit his job so that the institute where he worked could not claim his product. The idea behind creating this GNU public license was that so computer users could be free. This software is mostly compatible with Unix operating system. This was created from scratch but some parts were taken by existing software. This GNU was all written with mostly people who have volunteered there time to making it. GNU gained back up when interested businesses began contributing to development or selling GNU software and technical support which boomed the free software! In GNU, usually copyright law prohibits people from copying and distributing a work, but FSF wrote a license for the GNU software which grant recipients permission to copy and redistribute the software. 
 * GPL: Gnu Public License **

**The Free Software Movement and the GNU/Linux Operating System**  media type="google" key="-1647626314188526128&hl=en" width="400" height="326" created by: George Bray at [|ourtv.net.au]