Home › Entities › free_software › HAL

HAL

software subsystem for UNIX-like operating systems providing hardware abstraction
CreativeWork free_software Q200871
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

HAL

Summary

HAL is a free software[1]. HAL ranks in the top 7% of free_software entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (67 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • HAL's instance of is recorded as free software[3].
  • HAL's copyright license is recorded as GNU General Public License[4].
  • HAL's programmed in is recorded as Q15777[5].
  • HAL's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0fy282[6].
  • HAL's official website is recorded as http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal[7].
  • HAL's Open Hub ID is recorded as hal[8].
  • HAL's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[9].

Why It Matters

HAL ranks in the top 7% of free_software entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (67 views/month).[2] HAL has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10]

Related Entities

free software

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Open Hub. Retrieved . openhub.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). HAL. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/hal-q200871
MLA “HAL.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/hal-q200871.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_hal-q200871_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{HAL}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/hal-q200871}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): HAL — https://4ort.xyz/entity/hal-q200871 (retrieved 2026-05-03)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/hal-q200871 · Last refreshed: