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Open Source FAQ > Basic open source software licensing questions > What is GNU? Linux? The GPL? The FSF?

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 There is plenty of information on the Web about this.  Start with www.fsf.org, the site for the Free Software Foundation.  Linux is an open-source alternative to Unix -- the operating system used by many large computer systems.  Linux is now used as alternative to many other systems, such as Windows and embedded systems.  GNU  is a recursive acronym for ``GNU's Not Unix,'' the name of the project under which Linux is developed and promoted.  The Linux kernel is licensed under the GNU General Public License or GPL.

 

Last updated on November 7, 2009 by Heather Meeker