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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>G</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="next" href="gang-bang.html" title="gang bang"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">G</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../G.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gang-bang.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="G"/><dt xmlns="" id="G"><b>G</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">pref.,suff.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [SI] See <a href="../Q/quantifiers.html"><i class="glossterm">quantifiers</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. The letter G has special significance in the hacker community,
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largely thanks to the GNU project and the GPL.</p><p>Many <a href="../F/free-software.html"><i class="glossterm">free software</i></a> projects have names that
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names that begin with G. The GNU project gave many of its projects names
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that were acronyms beginning with the word “<span class="quote">GNU</span>”, such as
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“<span class="quote">GNU C Compiler</span>” (gcc) and “<span class="quote">GNU Debugger</span>” (gdb),
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and this launched a tradition. Just as many Java developers will begin
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their projects with J, many free software developers will begin theirs with
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G. It is often the case that a program with a G-prefixed name is licensed
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under the GNU GPL.</p><p>For example, someone may write a free Enterprise Engineering Kludge
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package (EEK technology is all the rage in the technical journals) and name
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it “<span class="quote">geek</span>” to imply that it is a GPL'd EEK package.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../G.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="gang-bang.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">G </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> gang bang</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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