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1 This is a distribution of Org Mode, a major mode for keeping notes, 2 authoring documents, computational notebooks, literate programming, 3 maintaining to-do lists, planning projects, and more — in a fast and 4 effective plain text system. 5 6 Check the [[https://orgmode.org][Org Mode website]] for more. 7 8 * Install Org 9 10 Org is part of GNU Emacs: you probably don't need to install it. 11 12 To install a more recent version, please do it from [[https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/org.html][GNU ELPA]] by 13 running this command: =M-x package-install RET org RET= 14 15 * Join the GNU Project 16 17 Org is part of GNU Emacs and GNU Emacs is part of the GNU Operating 18 System, developed by the GNU Project. 19 20 If you are the author of an awesome program and want to join us in 21 writing Free (libre) Software, please consider making it an official 22 GNU program and become a GNU Maintainer. Instructions on how to do 23 this are here http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation. 24 25 Don't have a program to contribute? Look at all the other ways to 26 help: https://www.gnu.org/help/help.html. 27 28 And to learn more about Free (libre) Software in general, please read 29 and share this page: https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html 30 31 * License 32 33 Org-mode is published under the [[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html][GNU GPLv3 license]] or any later 34 version, the same as GNU Emacs. 35 36 Org-mode is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it 37 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the 38 Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your 39 option) any later version. 40 41 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 42 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 43 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 44 General Public License for more details. 45 46 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 47 along with Org mode. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.