GNU nano

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Project Summary

GNU nano is designed to be a free replacement for the Pico text editor, part of the Pine email suite from The University of Washington. It aims to "emulate Pico as closely as possible and perhaps include extra functionality".

In a Nutshell, GNU nano...

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has had 10,424 commits made by 54 contributors
representing 18,602 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a average size development team
with increasing Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 5 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in June, 2000
ending with its most recent commit about 7 years ago

Quick Reference

Organization:

GNU

Project Links:

Homepage

Code Locations:

git://git.savannah.gnu.org/nano.git

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Managers:

Chris Allegretta

Licenses

GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Commercial Use

Modify

Distribute

Place Warranty

Use Patent Claims

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Sub-License

Hold Liable

Required

Distribute Original

Disclose Source

Include Copyright

State Changes

Include License

Include Install Instructions

These details are provided for information only. No information here is legal advice and should not be used as such.

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