GNU Labs
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 Software development by GNU Labs is based on the ethos of Software Freedom put forward by the Free Software Foundation and The GNU Project. It believes software must be free and works for the user's freedom to study, modify, share and redistribute the Software. The GNU Labs aims to enhance existing free softwares & their documentation, propagate & convey the needs & benefits of free software to public and support the students to do their free software projects. 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 works for software freedom can start GNU Labs inside their campus by following GLL. 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, SPACE
- Anivar Aravind, GAIA
- Pramode C E, I C Softwares
- Praveen A, FCI/SMC/PLUS/GLUGC
- Sreekanth -bangpypers
- Aanjhan R - ilug Chennai
- Hiran Venugopalan, PLUS/VAST GNU LABS
- Kushal Das, dgplug, Fedora
List of GNU Labs
VAST GNU Lab
The GNU Labs started at Vidya Academy of Science and Technology,Thrissur on November 1st 2006.
NITJ GNU Lab
The GNU Labs started at Dr.B.R.Ambedkar National Institute of Technology,Jalandhar,India.
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.