Sender: dj AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <37E0123A.9F6FF42E@delorie.com> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 17:40:10 -0400 From: DJ Delorie X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.10 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: [Fwd: GNU Project seeks nominations for the Free Software Award] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Free Software Foundation wrote: > > [Please redistribute widely where appropriate] > > The GNU project is asking for nominations for the Second Annual Free > Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software. > We want to give this award to a person who has made a great > contribution to the progress and development of free software (free as > in freedom; see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html for the > definition), through activities that accord with the spirit of free > software. > > Any kind of activity could be eligible--writing software, writing > documentation, publishing CDs, even journalism--but whatever the > activity, we want to recognize long-term central contributions to the > development of the world of free software. "Accord with the spirit" > means, for example, that software, manuals or collections of them (on > tape or CD) must be entirely free. (Once again, that's free as in > freedom; see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html.) Work done > commercially is eligible, but we want to give awards to individuals, > not companies. > > People such as Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds and Larry Wall, who > have already received this or other awards for their contributions, > are not eligible for the Free Software Award. > > Please send your nominations to award-nominations AT gnu DOT org, on or > before October 8, 1999. Please put the name of the person you are > nominating in the message subject. > > Please include an explanation of the work the person has done and why > you think it is especially important--but no more than 40 lines long. > Also please state where to find the software which your nomination is > based on.