GNU Spotlight October 2008

Originally published in the Free Software Foundation's Free Software Supporter - Issue 10, November 2008:
GNU Spotlight with Karl Berry

Perhaps the most notable GNU/FSF release for October 2008 is version 1.3 of the GNU Free Documentation License, which GNU manuals and many others use. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html has the new license, a FAQ, and other information

Here is the complete list of GNU software releases for October:

  • binutils-2.19
  • bison-2.4
  • clisp-2.47
  • ed-1.1
  • gama-1.9.06
  • gforth-0.7.0
  • global-5.7.3
  • glpk-4.33
  • gnash-0.8.4
  • libcdio-0.81
  • libextractor-0.5.21
  • libidn-1.11
  • libosip2-3.2.0
  • m4-1.4.12
  • maverik-6.2
  • maverik-demos-6.2
  • ncurses-5.7
  • octave-3.0.3
  • pspp-0.6.1
  • smalltalk-3.1
  • swbis-1.1

See the packages' announcements, web pages (http://www.gnu.org/software/PKGNAME) or the distributions themselves for details. Nearly all are available from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/, or preferably one of its mirrors (http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html).

To get announcements of most new GNU packages, subscribe to the info-gnu mailing list (http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu), which is publicly archived (http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/info-gnu).

I'd like to give a warm welcome to the newly-dubbed maintainers Leo Jackson (maverik), Vincent Lefevre (mpfr), and Peter Wainwright (ddd).

Several GNU packages are looking for maintainers.

Please see http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to help. To submit new packages to GNU, see http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.

Please feel free to write to me, karl@gnu.org, with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.