[Gambas-user] A strategical move for two communities: Gambas and The GNU Project

[Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro]

Hello Gambas community!

The GNU project[1] aims to develop the GNU system: an Unix-like
operating system that is entirely free software[2].  It was launched in
1984, marking the beginning of the free software movement and has been
ever since the pivotal point of philosophical, legal and technical
development regarding software user's freedom.  Since 1985 it is been
sponsored by the FSF (Free Software Foundation)[3]: a nonprofit
organization with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom
and to defend the rights of all free software users.

Technically speaking, the GNU Project is also well known by its high
quality software development tools, like compilers, interpreters and
debuggers, and historically has influenced the Unix-like operating
systems world and industry standards.  However, in its 30 years of
existence, although the GNU project has developed implementations for
several languages, it has not done so for the Basic language.

Therefore, as a member of the GNU project I want to invite the Gambas
community to join the GNU community, making Gambas a GNU package[4] and
thence the official implementation of the Basic language for the GNU
operating system.  The GNU project will provide the full infrastructure
for development and will help to spread awareness of Gambas, promoting
it as the de facto GNU Basic language implementation.  As a GNU package,
Gambas can benefit from FSF endorsement, and potentially fund raising
campaigns and sponsoring.

I commit myself to help wherever needed: with the forge migration from
Sourceforge to GNU Savannah; with the compliance to the GNU Coding and
Maintenance Standards, etc.

What are your thoughts on that?


Footnotes:
[1] https://gnu.org/
[2] https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
[3] https://www.fsf.org/
[4] https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html

--
 ,= ,-_-. =.  Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro (oitofelix) [0x28D618AF]
((_/)o o(\_)) There is no system but GNU;
 `-'(. .)`-'  GNU Linux-Libre is one of its official kernels;
     \_/      All software must be free as in freedom;
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