@dircategory Geek Gadgets @direntry * GG: (GG). The Geek Gadgets Project Documentation.
Copyright (C) 1998
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Because of the hard work from a number of members of the Amiga community, we now have a large body of development tools that have been ported to the Amiga and are available in both source and binary form. We will refer to this software set as Geek Gadgets.
The name reflects the fact that not only is this environment intended to meet the needs of Amiga Developers for tools, examples, documentation, and other useful material, but that it is also supported by the developer community itself and not any single entity, commercial or otherwise. This ensures that it will always be available and supportable by this community.
One of the goals of Geek Gadgets is to have a completely self hosting environment. I.E. that everything within it be compilable by the provided compilers. It should be possible for the recipient of these utilities to make whatever changes or bug fixes they want in any piece of code, and then rebuild and use that fixed version (and hopefully send those changes back for integration into future releases).
Although Geek Gadgets started out as ports of tools covered by the GNU General Public License (see section GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE), the GNU Library General Public License (see section GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE), or some code covered by the "Berkeley License", it certainly isn't limited to those. Any package which is available in source is eligible to be part of Geek Gadgets.
There are several mailing lists available for people that are interested in getting ongoing Geek Gadgets information or participating in discussions about Geek Gadgets. See section 1.1 Mailing Lists.
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