Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I te tau 1985, ka whakaputaina e Stallman te GNU Manifesto, e whakaatu ana i tana hihiri ki te hanga i tetahi punaha whakahaere koreutu e kiia ana ko GNU, ka hototahi ki a Unix. Ko te ingoa GNU he kupu whakapoto mo "GNU's Not Unix". I muri tata mai, ka whakatūria e ia tētahi kaporeihana kore-whai hua e kīia ana ko te Free Software Foundation hei whakamahi i ngā kaiwhakawā pūmanawa kore utu, hei whakarato hoki i tētahi hanganga ture mō te nekeneke pūmanawa kore utu. Ko Stallman te perehitini kore utu o te FSF, he 501 ((c) ((3) he whakahaere kore-pai i whakatuhia i Massachusetts. I whakarewahia e Stallman te ariā o te copyleft, he tikanga ture hei tiaki i nga mana whakarereke me te tohatoha mo te raupaparorohiko koreutu. I whakatinana tuatahihia i roto i te GNU Emacs General Public License, a i te tau 1989 i tukuna te raihana GNU General Public License (GPL) tuatahi. I taua wā, kua oti te nuinga o te pūnaha GNU.  Pātai: He aha te tau i whakaputaina ai?
Ko te tau 1989