Ethical Informatics Mini-HOWTO › Glossary
Appendix Glossary
- Free software
- Software that can be run, studied, copied, modified and redistributed freely, under licences such as the GPL.
- GPL (GNU General Public License)
- The licence created by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. It requires that the source code of derived works stay free.
- GNU/Linux
- An operating system that combines the GNU tools with the Linux kernel.
- HOWTO
- A practical, step-by-step guide written by users to explain how they solved a specific problem.
- LUG (Linux User Group)
- A local group of Linux users who meet, help each other and organise install fests.
- Newsgroup
- An online discussion group, organised by topic, in which users post messages and reply to each other.
- HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
- The language used to write web pages.
- ECDL
- European Computer Driving Licence, a certificate of basic computer skills. Its exams are based on proprietary software.
- Copyleft
- The practice of using copyright law to guarantee that a work and its derivatives remain free.
- Install fest
- A public event where people are helped to install free software on their own computers.