Difference between revisions of "GNU Labs"

GNU Labs is an initiative to bring students to Free Software development. It is officially supported by [http://www.gnu.org 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 [http://www.fsf.org Free Software Foundation] and [http://www.gnu.org The GNU Project]. It also supports the concept of the software being  [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html 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.