maint: advertise GNU in README

* README: Add section to attract more people towards the GNU project.
Inspired by a suggestion from Jose E. Marchesi <jemarch@gnu.org> on
the gnu-prog-discuss mailing list.

diff --git a/README b/README
index fd16df7cf62eac86a564a7f473555df9f86c1ee0..2cedb951b06fb845c236932305c114cc610555ea 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ found in <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/>, and
 similarly for the other mailing lists.
 
 Licensing
-
+=========
 Autoconf is released under the General Public License version 3 (GPLv3+).
 Additionally, Autoconf includes a licensing exception in some of its
 source files; see the respective copyright notices for how your
@@ -55,6 +55,25 @@ For more licensing information, see
 For any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package
 note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.
 
+GNU Project notice
+==================
+Autoconf is part of the GNU Operating System, developed by the GNU Project.
+
+If you are the author of an awesome program and want to join us in
+writing Free (libre) Software, please consider making it an official
+GNU program and become a GNU Maintainer.  Instructions on how to do
+this are here:
+  https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation
+
+Don't have a program to contribute?  Look at all the other ways to help:
+  https://www.gnu.org/help/help.html
+
+And to learn more about Free (libre) Software in general, please read
+and share this page:
+  https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
+
+We are looking forward to hacking with you!
+
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