GNU Labs is an initiative to bring students to Free Software development. It is officially supported by The GNU project which was founded by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) to develop a completely Free (as in Freedom) operating system. The lab supports the free software idea put forward by the Free Software Foundation and The GNU Project. It also supports the concept of the software being free and believes that the freedom of a user to study, modify, share and publish changes to a computer a program is essential. The GNU Labs aims at the enhancing existing free softwares, and also to make the public aware of the benefits and need of free softwares. The lab also supports the students inside the campus for doing their final year project in and as free software. The lab follows a set of laws called as GNU Labs law, GLL, which the lab volunteers should follow. These laws are not meant to restrict the benefits, but to set freedom as a standard for the lab works. Any group inside an educational institution which supports the views of free software and are ready to work in the conditions of GLL can make GNU Labs inside their campus. Doing so is indeed most welcomed.
GNU Labs : Steering Committee
- C K Raju, H.O.D., Information Technology, M.E.S.Kuttipuram.
- V Sasi Kumar - FSF India
- Anivar Aravind, GAIA
- Pramode C E, I C Softwares
- Praveen A, FCI/PLUS/SMC
- Sreekanth -bangpypers
- Aanjhan R - ilug Chennai
- Hiran Venugopalan, PLUS/VAST GNU LABS
List of GNU Labs
VAST GNU Labs
The GNU Labs started at Vidya Academy of Science and Technology,Thrissur on November 1st 2006.
GNU Labs Laws [G L L]
- All software used in the GNU Labs must be Free software.
- All software which is released by the Lab must be Free software and should release under current version or any later version of GNU GPL.
- All the documents/manuals relased by the GNU Labs should be under GNU Free Documentation License.
- The Lab can give support to the development of Free Software that will run on Free Operating Systems and has licenses compatible with GPL-version-2-or-later licensing.
- The name of individuals who worked for a specific project should be shown along with it.
- Localisation will be done only for the Free softwares which works on Free operating systems.
- Software developed by the lab has to follow the GNU Coding Standards.
- We welcome the support, funding and contributions from outside communities, companies and groups but we are not willing to change these G L L for them.