GIFT (Gnu) - GIFT (Gnu) GIFT is a content based image retrieval system. The GNU Image Finding Tool is a Content Based Image Retrieval System (CBIRS). You can do Query By Example on images, giving you the opportunity to improve query results by relevance feedback. The program relies entirely on the content of the images to process queries, so you needn't annotate images before querying the collection. It comes with a tool which lets you index whole directory trees containing images in one go. You then can use the GIFT server and its client, SnakeCharmer (separate package), to browse your own image collections. The GIFT is an open framework for content-based image retrieval. We explicitly have taken into account the possibility of adding new ways of querying to the framework..
Gnutella - Pepper of Nullsoft, a division of AOL, in early 2000. On March 14, the program was made available for download on Nullsoft's servers. The source code was to be relased later, supposedly under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The event was prematurely announced on Slashdot, and thousands downloaded the program that day. The next day, AOL stopped the availability of the program over legal concerns and restrained the Nullsoft division from doing any further work on the project. This did not stop Gnutella; after a few days the protocol had been reverse engineered and compatible open source clones started showing up. This parallel development of different clients by different groups remains the modus operandi of Gnutella development today. The Gnutella network would be a fully distributed alternative to semi-centralized systems.
GNU - GNU For the gnu, a large hooved mammal, see wildebeest. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 GNU software 3.
GNU Free Documentation License - GNU Free Documentation License simple:GNU Free Documentation License The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) is a copyleft license for free content, designed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for the GNU project. The official text of version 1.2 of the license text can be found at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html. The license is designed for software documentation and other reference and instructional materials. It stipulates that any copy of the material, even if modified, carry the same license. Those copies may be sold but, if produced in quantity, have to be made available in a format which facilitates further editing. Wikipedia is the largest documentation project to use this license. The Debian-legal group considers that the GFDL is "non-free", since it fails the Debian Free Software Guidelines [1] [1]..
GNU General Public License - GNU General Public License The GNU General Public License is a copyleft free software license. It is also referred to as the "GNU GPL", or (when there is no risk of confusion with other "general public licenses") simply the "GPL". It should be noted that there is no "GNU Public License", which is a common misnomer, perhaps based on the use of product names in the names of other licenses like the Nethack License and the BSD License. The GPL was written by Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen in 1989, for the purpose of distributing programs released as part of the GNU project. It was based on similar licenses used for early versions of GNU Emacs. Since its introduction, it has become one of the most.
GNU Compiler Collection - GNU Compiler Collection GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection. Originally, it stood for GNU C Compiler, but it now handles many different programming languages besides C. GCC is a GPL-licensed compiler distributed by the Free Software Foundation, and a key enabling technology for the Open Source Software (OSS) and Free software movements. Originally written by Richard Stallman in 1987, GCC is now maintained by a varied group of programmers from around the world. It has been ported to more kinds of processors and operating systems than any other compiler. In 1997, a group of developers dissatisfied with the slow pace and closed nature of official GCC development formed a project called EGCS (Experimental/Enhanced GNU Compiler System) which merged several experimental forks into a single project forked.
GNU Manifesto - GNU Manifesto The GNU Manifesto was written by Richard Stallman in 1985 as an explanation and definition of the goals of the GNU project. It is regarded by many in the Free software movement as a fundamental philosophical source. The full text is included with GNU software such as Emacs and the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, and is available on the web at http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html. It was last updated in 1993..
Gnumeric - including Excel, XML, HTML, Applix, Quattro-Pro, PlanPerfect, Sylk, DIF, Oleo, SC, StarOffice, and Lotus 1-2-3. Its native format is XML, compressed with gzip. Gnumeric is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Version 1.2, the lastest stable release, was made available in September 2003..
GNU Debugger - GNU Debugger The GNU Debugger, usually called just GDB, is the standard debugger for the GNU software system. It is a portable debugger which runs on many Unix-like systems and works for many programming languages, including C, C++, and FORTRAN. It is free software released under the GNU General Public License. GDB offers extensive facilities for tracing and altering the execution of computer programs. The user can monitor and modify the values of programs' internal variables, and even call functions independently of the program's normal behavior. The debugger does not contain its own graphical user interface, and defaults to a command-line interface. However, several front-ends have been built for it, such as DDD and the "GUD mode" in Emacs. These offer facilities similar to debuggers found.
GNU Lesser General Public License - GNU Lesser General Public License The GNU Lesser General Public License is a software license designed as a compromise between the GNU General Public License and simple permissive licenses such as the BSD license and the MIT License. It places a copyleft restriction on individual source code files but does not copyleft the program as a whole provided you use "a suitable shared library mechanism for linking" and follow certain other restrictions. The license is only useful for software libraries; it was once called the GNU Library General Public License. The main difference between the GPL and the LGPL is that the latter can be linked to a non-(L)GPLed software program. External Link Text of the LGPL.
GNU Privacy Guard - GNU Privacy Guard The GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) is a free replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software. It is released under the GNU General Public License and was initially developed by Werner Koch and supported by the German government. GPG is completely compliant with the IETF standard for OpenPGP, so the two interact well. GPG is very stable, production-quality software. It is frequently included in free operating systems, such as the BSDss and GNU/Linux. Although the basic GPG program has a command line interface, there exist various front-ends that provide it with a graphical user interface; for example, it has been integrated into KMail and Evolution, the graphical email clients found in the most popular Linux desktops GNOME and KDE. GPG features functions to.
Gnuplot - a free software license which permits the copying and modification of the source code. Modified versions are only allowed to be distributed as patch files. The program has no connection to the GNU project and does not use the GPL copyleft license. The program can be used interactively and comes with extensive online help. The user issues text commands in order to produce the plot. It is also possible to write gnuplot scripts which, when executed, generate a plot. For an example script, see logarithmic spiral. Gnuplot is used as the plotting engine of GNU Octave..
GNU m4 - GNU m4 GNU m4 is the GNU version of the m4 macro preprocessor. It is designed to avoid many kinds of limits found in traditional m4s: limits like maximum line lengths, maximum size of a macro, number of macros, etc. The GNU Autoconf package makes extensive use of the features of GNU m4. GNU m4 is currently maintained (albeit intermittently) by René Seindal..
GNU Octave - GNU Octave Octave is a free computer program for performing numerical computations, which is mostly compatible with MATLAB. It is part of the GNU project. The project conceived around 1988. At first it was intended to be a companion to a chemical reactor design course. Real development only started by John W. Eaton in 1992. The first alpha release dates back to January 4, 1993 and on February 17, 1994 version 1.0 was released. The name has nothing to do with music. It was the name of a former professor of one of the authors of Octave who was known for his ability to quickly come up with good approximations to numerical problems. Because Octave is made available under the GNU General Public License, it can.
GNU bison - GNU bison GNU bison is a free parser generator computer program written for the GNU project, and available for virtually all common operating systems. It is mostly compatible with yacc, and offers several improvements over the earlier program..
GNUstep - and application development tools for Unix-like operating systems. It is part of the GNU project. GNUstep features a cross-platform, object-oriented development environment based on and completely compatible with the OpenStep specification developed by NeXT (which has since been bought by Apple Computer). Like Apple, GNUstep also has a Java interface to OpenStep, as well as Ruby and Scheme bindings. The GNUstep developers plan to track future changes to Apple's Cocoa to remain compatible. History GNUstep began when Paul Kunz and others at SLAC wanted to port HippoDraw from NeXTSTEP to another platform. Instead of rewriting HippoDraw from scratch and reusing only the application design, they decided to rewrite the NeXTSTEP object layer which the application depended on. This was the first version of libobjcX. It enabled them to port HippoDraw to.
GNU Mach - GNU Mach GNU Mach is the default microkernel in the Hurd kernel of the GNU operating system. In November 2002, Richard M. Stallman announced the Free Software Foundation's plan to switch to OSKit Mach, in order to solve major problems blocking the release of the GNU operating system..
GNU Radio - GNU Radio GNU Radio is the GNU project's implementation of software defined radio..
GNU LilyPond - GNU LilyPond GNU LilyPond is a free software music typesetting package. It uses a simple ASCII notation for music, which is then compiled into TeX with embedded PostScript. The PostScript output can then be used to produce printable files or images. It is anticipated that GNU LilyPond support will be added to Wikipedia in the future, to allow inline generation of musical scores and other musical notation within Wikipedia..
GNU build system - GNU build system The GNU build system is a suite of tools produced by the GNU project that assist in making packages portable to many UNIX-like systems. It comprises of GNU Autoconf GNU Automake GNU Libtool Other related tools include GNU make GNU gettext The pkg-config tool used in several GNOME packages The GNU build system is widely used in many free software and open source packages. While the tools comprising the GNU build system themselves are GPL-ed free software, there are no restrictions in using them in making non-free software portable. External Links The book GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool, by Gary V. Vaughan, Ben Elliston, Tom Tromey, and Ian Lance Taylor. ISBN 1578701902 available online at http://sources.redhat.com/autobook under the terms of the Open Publication.
