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<h2>Documentation of the GNU Project</h2>
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GNU and other free documentation can be obtained by the following methods:
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<li>Most <a href="/manual/manual.html">GNU manuals</a> are online in
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<li>The <a href="http://directory.fsf.org/">Free href="https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page">Free Software Directory</a>
    includes links to documentation.</li>

<li><a href="http://planet.gnu.org">planet.gnu.org</a> href="//planet.gnu.org">planet.gnu.org</a> is an aggregation of
    blogs and news announcements from GNU packages.</li>

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<h3>GNU documentation principles</h3>

<p>We believe the reader should be free to copy, update, and
redistribute GNU documentation, just like GNU software.</p>

<p>Originally, all our documentation was released under a short <a
href="/licenses/licenses.html#WhatIsCopyleft">copyleft</a> license, or
under the <a href="/licenses/licenses.html#GPL">GNU General Public
License (GPL)</a>.  In 2001, the <a
href="/licenses/licenses.html#FDL">GNU Free Documentation License
(FDL)</a> was created to address needs that were not met by licenses
originally designed for software.  For more information on free
documentation, please see <a href="http://www.stallman.org/">Richard href="https://www.stallman.org/">Richard
Stallman's</a> essay, “<a href="/philosophy/free-doc.html">Free
Software and Free Manuals</a>”. Manuals.</a>”  A <a
href="freemanuals.texi">Texinfo
href="/doc/freemanuals.texi">Texinfo version of that essay</a> is available
for inclusion in manuals.</p>


<h3>Contribute</h3>

<p>Please help us write more documentation!  This is one of the most
important ways to contribute to the free software movement.  For more
details on this and other ways to help, <a
href="/help/help.html#helpgnu">click here</a>.</p>

<p><b>GNU Press:</b> another way to contribute is to help us <a
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href="https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/gnu-press/book-stores/expanding">expand
bookstore availability</a> of <a
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href="https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/gnu-press">GNU Press</a> books.  For this or any
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